As part of the Manual Labours: The Complaining Body programme at The Showroom, April 2016, artist Sarah Browne discusses her new film Report to an Academy (drawing from the Kafka story of the same title), commissioned for Manual Labours, exploring the physical sensations and impacts of speech in search of new forms of articulacy and agility. Saoirse Wall’s discusses her video Sticky Encounter, which proposes a reaction to the pain of not being believed in a doctor-patient encounter.

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.