Join us for the Toronto Book Launch of 'The Employee'

The Employee, Co-edited by Joshua Schwebel and Lauren Wetmore.

Sunday, June 15th

3-5pm

Art Metropole

Join Joshua Schwebel and Lauren Wetmore, co-editors of The Employee, for a book launch and discussion with project performer Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott and Adi Berardini, Executive Director of Forest City Gallery at Art Metropole on Sunday, June 15th from 3-5pm. Along with a presentation of The Employee, we will discuss how cultural work, artistic livelihoods, and arts funding intertwine with artist-run culture. 

The Employee is a publication of critical texts and first-person testimonials by artists and cultural workers reflecting on the links between public funding, artistic commitment, and self-exploitation in their practices and labour contexts.

The Employee emerges from its namesake artwork, a conceptual project of institutional critique by Joshua Schwebel that took place at Forest City Gallery in London, ON (2020- 2021). As a subsequent artistic gesture, a comprehensive archive of the thousands of emails connected to The Employee can be seen at www.the-employee.com. This archive constitutes a trace of the artwork and documents the continuous administrative labour of communication involved in cultural work. 

The book is co-edited by Joshua Schwebel and Lauren Wetmore and includes contributions by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, Teresa Carlesimo, Bopha Chhay, Dana Kopel, Michelle Lacombe, Denise Ryner, Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott, and Marina Vishmidt, with graphic design by House9. It is co-published by Art Metropole and Forest City Gallery.

Copies of The Employee will be available shortly at Forest City Gallery.