SHIFTwork is the collective name for a series of commissioned performances which focused on the physical act and process of painting as a form of performance art. This catalogue documents the first collaboration, ‘Cathedral of Joy’, occurred with New York artist Fritz Welsh on a series of paintings in full view of the public whereby the gallery became a public studio revealing in real time and on continuous webcam transmission what is ordinarily the private practice of painting.

Article analysing how art approaches and resists the capitalist appropriation of power and creation. 

The author analyses several contemporary performances as examples of artistic critique of current ideological canons and power structures governing labour relations in the globalised capitalist production.

Article exploring the relationship between the critical categories ‘performance’ and ‘labour’ through the broader term ‘practice’ developed in Marx’s more mature writings.

Attempts to describe how artistic imagination can produce new situations, based on the potentials of the singular ‘body’ within its environment.

Terry O’Connor, Wendy Houston and Joe Kelleher give an insight into the working process of the collaborative project “Say the word and MOVE”, in which they explore relations between speaking and moving, language and movement.

Excerpt of video documents a live performance held in the summer of 1976. Super 8 film & video, colour, sound.

Work in progress footage of performance in 2013

This publication tries to reproduce an exhibition that tried to give the summation of a rich and diverse movement

This collection of essays surveys the performance and promise of contemporary global artist-run centres and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence.

Remember Saro-Wiwa is a coalition of organisations and individuals initiated and co-ordinated by PLATFORM. Pack includes press reviews, articles and promotional material, and a DVD ‘Refining Memory’ by Andrew Conio and Judy Price

A guide about the future of the small-scale visual arts sector, outlining economic and social understandings of value, measuring the value of arts organizations and sustainability.