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WERKER is an art collective operating at the intersection of labour, ecofeminism, and the LGBTQ+ movements, advocating for an image critique of daily life to analyse what becomes visible and what remains hidden or silenced in different political contexts. The collective, initiated by Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos in Amsterdam in 2009, released ten issues of a publication called WERKER MAGAZINE. Since then, WERKER has explored a variety of media, including installation, performance, video, sound, textile, digital publishing, and has also developed community projects, reading groups, cine-clubs, radio podcasts, and publishing workshops.
Taking inspiration from Der Vereinigung der Arbeiter-Fotografen (the association of worker photographers), a group of politicised photo-clubs that emerged in Germany in the 1920s, WERKER follows in the footsteps of the first socialist photography experiments in the USSR, which extended to Europe, the United States, and Japan. Their methods revolved around self-representation, self-publishing, image analysis, collective authorship, and counter-archiving.
Under the name WERKER COLLECTIVE, they engage in producing media from below with students, cultural workers, self-organised unions of domestic workers, undocumented migrants, in support of anti-eviction activists, feminist groups, LGBTQ+ communities, and people with neurological or functional diversities. Through these workshops, WERKER COLLECTIVE weaves an intersectional and transnational network of allies, reactivating oppressed histories, and investigating worker's solidarity through collaborative artistic practice.
Taking inspiration from Der Vereinigung der Arbeiter-Fotografen (the association of worker photographers), a group of politicised photo-clubs that emerged in Germany in the 1920s, WERKER follows in the footsteps of the first socialist photography experiments in the USSR, which extended to Europe, the United States, and Japan. Their methods revolved around self-representation, self-publishing, image analysis, collective authorship, and counter-archiving.
Under the name WERKER COLLECTIVE, they engage in producing media from below with students, cultural workers, self-organised unions of domestic workers, undocumented migrants, in support of anti-eviction activists, feminist groups, LGBTQ+ communities, and people with neurological or functional diversities. Through these workshops, WERKER COLLECTIVE weaves an intersectional and transnational network of allies, reactivating oppressed histories, and investigating worker's solidarity through collaborative artistic practice.
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Since its foundation, WERKER COLLECTIVE has collaborated with numerous artists, activists,
researchers, and unions on various projects in schools, museums, and archives. These
collaborations form WERKER's ecosystem, including Activestills, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Casco Art
Institute: Working for The Commons, Centre Culturel Populaire Palentes Orchamp (Groupes
Medvedkine), Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Der Arbeiter-Fotograf, Dutch Art Institute, Georgy
Mamedov, International Institute of Social History, Jo Spence Memorial Archive, Manifesta 14,
Silvia Federici, Mayday Rooms, Mokum Kraakt, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Niet te
Koop, Photography Workshop, Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunsten, Sindillar: Sindicato de
Trabajadoras del Hogar y los Cuidados, S.M.A.K, Susoespai: Creació i Salut Mental, Stedelijk
Museum, Steve Edwards, Sonsbeek 20–24, Tate Modern, The Showroom, The Voice of Domestic
Workers, and We Are Here.
researchers, and unions on various projects in schools, museums, and archives. These
collaborations form WERKER's ecosystem, including Activestills, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Casco Art
Institute: Working for The Commons, Centre Culturel Populaire Palentes Orchamp (Groupes
Medvedkine), Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Der Arbeiter-Fotograf, Dutch Art Institute, Georgy
Mamedov, International Institute of Social History, Jo Spence Memorial Archive, Manifesta 14,
Silvia Federici, Mayday Rooms, Mokum Kraakt, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Niet te
Koop, Photography Workshop, Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunsten, Sindillar: Sindicato de
Trabajadoras del Hogar y los Cuidados, S.M.A.K, Susoespai: Creació i Salut Mental, Stedelijk
Museum, Steve Edwards, Sonsbeek 20–24, Tate Modern, The Showroom, The Voice of Domestic
Workers, and We Are Here.
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