On 28 May, M HKA and NICC present a new FRONT ROW artist talk with WERKER Collective: Art as Infrastructure for Dissent.

FRONT ROW is a new series of surprising artist talks that M HKA and NICC organise together every month. FRONT ROW offers some of today’s most thought-provoking artists the opportunity to reflect with the public on art, culture and society. The talks are an opportunity for everyone to meet artists and to consider and discuss their view of the world.

Since 2009, WERKER Collective—founded by Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos—has reclaimed the radical potential of image production. Drawing direct inspiration from the workers’ photographers of the 1920s, their practice brings together art, activism and archiving as tools for collective resistance.

WERKER Collective: Art as Infrastructure for Dissent
19:00-20:30 | 6th floor, M HKA | Language: English
In this talk, WERKER Collective looks back on more than ten years of creating infrastructures for resistance. From their origins in WERKER Magazine—a publication that laid the foundation for their collaborative ethos—to recent projects with trade unions, domestic workers and queer networks, they show how art can become a site of collective agency.

Through their long-term engagement with archiving, self-publishing and organising study groups, WERKER Collective poses an urgent question: how can we build infrastructures of resistance that centre care, solidarity and the bodies that have been marginalised by history?

Plan your visit
Practical information
Date: 28 May from 19:00-20:30
Location: M HKA, 6th floor
Language: The talk will be held in English.
Admission: Free admission, but booking is required. Book your ticket here

https://www.muhka.be/en/activities/front-row-with-werker-collective/

Artists: WERKER Collective