Past Event
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– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place in Gallery 2 at Whitechapel Gallery
– You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
– If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependant on availability).
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event last approximately 1.5 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
– An audio recording of the event can be obtained by emailing publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org following the event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive. This audio material may also be used for our Hear, Now podcast series.
Thursday 17 August | 7pm | £5
In a post-work utopia, what happens to domestic labour? Join Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek in conversation with writer Amelia Horgan to celebrate their latest publication, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. In this new book, they lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives and chart the ideas of anti-housework visionaries, to sketch out a path towards real free time for all –where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all.
In partnership with Verso.
Helen Hester is Professor of Gender, Technology and Work at the University of West London. Her research interests include technology, social reproduction, and the future of work, and she is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (with Nick Srnicek), Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex and Xenofeminism.
Nick Srnicek is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (with Helen Hester), Platform Capitalism, and Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (with Alex Williams).
Amelia Horgan is a writer from London. She is the author of Lost in Work (Pluto Press). She is also a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Essex. Amelia works at Common Wealth think tank as an editorial strategist and the lead for the Centre for Democratising Work.
