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Manual Labours: The Complaining Body, Manuals and Publications
These manuals and publications were produced by Manual Labours for The Complaining Body, presented at The Showroom in April 2016 as a week-long programme of events and new commissions by artist Sarah Browne, choreographer Hamish MacPherson and writer Ivor Southwood.
Developed from a series of workshops with call centre workers in a London Borough Council, commuters on a train station platform, and University staff dealing with student complaints, Manual Labours: The Complaining Body explores the physical and emotional effects of complaining, receiving complaints and not being able to complain in the context of work.
Manual Labours Manuals ## 1 and #2 can be downloaded from the Manual Labours website .
Manual Labours: The Complaining Body is the second stage of the practice based research project Manual Labours initiated by Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards exploring people’s physical relationships to work
Manual Labours: The Complaining Body is developed in partnership with The Showroom, London; In Certain Places, Preston and Movement and Division of Labour, Worcester, and is supported by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts, The Elephant Trust, The Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund and Birkbeck University Widening Access.
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Manual Labours: The Complaining Body, Reading Group 1
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Manual Labours:The Office(less) Christmas Party
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Manual Labours: Report to an Academy | Film screening and discussion
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Manual Labours: Thunderous grumbling under cover of darkness | Performance workshop
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Manual Labours: The Complaining Body with Sarah Browne, Hamish MacPherson and Ivor Southwood
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Manual Labours: The Complaining Body: Sarah Browne in Conversation with Saoirse Wall