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6:30 PM

Labour Power Plant

Film screening|Film screening | North American Premiere

  • Cinéma du Parc, Montreal

  • French with English subtitles.
  • Free.

Film screening November 23, 2021 at 6:30 PM at Cinéma du Parc
Free. No registration needed, tickets at the counter. 
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The film is presented in collaboration with the Musée d'art de Joliette and the exhibition "Smile! Emotions at Work", which will be presented there from 2 October 2021 to 9 January 2022:

LABOUR POWER PLANT

France | 2019 | 85 mins
Direction: Romana Schmalisch und Robert Schlicht

North American Premiere
 
A new production centre, maybe set in an undetermined future. What is being produced here?
People with their own wills, interests and desires are being equipped with the different physiological, cognitive, psychological and social core competencies to transform them into human resources.

The film “Labour Power Plant” shows the life in the fictitious eponymous institution. While the overarching structure may appear dystopic, all of its elements are based on existing courses in training centres, and both teachers and trainees play in part themselves, acting out the social construction of the commodity labour power.

Other screenings at the Musée d'art de Joliette:
  • Nov 18, 2021 at 7 PM
  • Nov 20, 2021 at 2 PM
More info here.

On 25 November 2021 at 12:30 p.m. EST / 6:30 p.m. CET, the film will be accompanied by an online discussion with artists Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht and occupational psychologist Marie-Christine Albert (HEC Montréal).

 

Smile! Emotions at work

Curators : Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre und Maud Jacquin
Exhibition: October 2, 2021 to January 9, 2022

This group show of artists from Quebec, Canada, and abroad addresses the role and nature of emotions in the world of work and, more generally, throughout our capitalist technological culture. The project is built in two parts, one devoted to emotions generated by contemporary transformations of the workplace, and the other to emotions that are literally put to work. These two broad sections of the exhibition are articulated around the following interrogations: What is the impact of the transformations of the market and of working conditions on the bodies, gestures, emotions, and behaviour of workers? How are emotions worked upon and how are they commercialized in a service economy where workers’ ability to master their emotions (what we call emotional work) plays an important role and where technology is used to transform what we feel into exploitable capital?
More info here.


 

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