I assume that you are perhaps frustrated because you work full-time while your wife works part-time, and, unlike many full-time workers, you are home to witness your wife’s day. This would remove one stressor in your relationship. So yes, I assume that this laundry issue really is about other things, but – if you take care of your own clothes, it would be impossible for you to feel taken advantage of. If someone else has dirty clothes to make up a full load, you toss whatever is in the basket into the machine and transfer it to the dryer when you’re passing by. In my household, we each take responsibility for our own laundry. (Yes, your wife can even do laundry while watching videos on her phone.) ![]() If you have a washer/dryer in the home, laundry is one of the easiest household chores to do. She challenges us to think about creativity & art practice as being part of the domestic world rather than apart from it.ĭirty Laundry explores those un or under acknowledged tasks within family life that often fall to one person & can have an impact on their capacity, identity and mental health.Ask Amy: A yoga friendship turned toxic, and she feels guilty ending itīut because you value having an empty laundry basket, I suggest that you should stop politely asking your wife to do it, and just do it yourself. Conversely, Zoe Thompson-Moore’s banner series, turns the idea of labour on its head. Through her process, the repetitive, overwhelming, monolithic task of washing becomes tangible. Caitlin Rose Donnelly, for example, creates one of the pou works for this show, Whakaputu (2023) by washing domestic items – sheets, in paint. This group work collaboratively, sharing and responding, as the project developed.Įveryone asked to be involved gave an emphatic yes.Įach artist and writer has made work that in some way gives voice to invisible labour. After this successful artistic conversation, a productive to and fro of words and paint, Kate & Cassie decided to pull together a wider group of creative people they had met variously through study, work, art practice, & playcentre, all currently primary-carers for their families. ![]() Involved in the Dirty Laundry project are: painter & designer, Kate Stevens West somatic practitioners, Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann & Clare Luiten essayist, Bronwyn Polaschek poets, Cassie Ringland-Stewart & Mary Walker digital artist & photographer, Johanna Mechen photographer, Dianna Thomson painter, Hana Carpenter installation artists, Caitlin Rose Donnelly & Zoe Thompson-Moore textile artist, Philippa Doyle & personal non-fiction writer, Holly Walker.ĭirty Laundry has its beginnings in an earlier collaboration between coordinators, Kate & Cassie, in the 2020 exhibition and publication, The Velvet Rope, Poems and Paintings. In the cracks between caring, paid work, transporting, feeding, researching, problem-solving, replenishing and emotionally guiding-or after the children are asleep-do we have the energy to make, think, build, create, write, have fun or play? How do we start to acknowledge invisible labour, its significance, its cost, its beauty and the generosity of it?ĭirty Laundry brings together thirteen artists and writers to explore and express their experience of invisible labour. This mountain of invisible labour, the second shift, the mental load, is heavy – and profoundly important. Under that great big pile of washing, school notices, birthday present wish lists and to-dos, there’s an abundance of seething creativity bursting to be released. It’s a lonely thing, working hard for free, at tasks not even considered to be work.
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