Bodies That Work: Artifacts from Repair Shop

When: Friday, June 5th, 4-7pm
Where: Citiot (404 Main Street, Catskill, NY)

Kathleen McDermott and Open Source Gallery @ Citiot 

Repair Shop was a six week exhibit at Open Source Gallery in South Slope, that turned the gallery into an experimental space for considering the lifespan of objects and when they are assigned “value,” especially in the context of work.

One side of the gallery was set-up as a repair shop, open to donations from the public, and the other side served as a showroom, featuring appliances from the artist’s home that could no longer perform their original functions––a sewing machine that didn’t sew, a blender that leaked motor fluid––but that still had some working parts. Using techniques from puppetry and animatronics, Kathleen McDermott made strange, campy attachments for the “broken” machines, expanding on the parts that still functioned, and engaging them in a dialogue around questions of domestic work, motherhood’s impact on the body, and the labor of repair.

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