endlessly grateful to Marta for this inspiring, ongoing collaboration, to the ARC DP “Digital Remote Working Revolution” team @lstraughan.bsky.social @davidjbissell.bsky.social @andrewgorman-murray+ SGEAS Art-Science Committee @candiceboyd.bsky.social @lisapalmer @emmamcrea for all the support 🙏🏼

By offering a peek into the intimate space of working from home, with Crip Time Clock we want to challenge the spectacle of ableist work normativity and also raise critical questions about the politics of presence, in/visibility, surveillance and control in contemporary workplaces | 🧵

Inspired by the notion of “crip time” and Metropolis’ (1927) “Worker’s Clock,” Marta created a round steel shroud, with a screen that plays a 12hr performance of her moving weighted clock hands, embodying the labour involved in managing productivity while navigating health conditions | 🧵

Marta and I met weekly to talk about experiences of living with chronic illness—ours and of people I interviewed. Ever-shifting non-normative temporalities of work and productivity emerged—accelerated, pushed through, paced, camouflaged, exposed, extra, yet rarely enough. And more beyond words | 🧵

🕰️ introducing Crip Time Clock 🕰️ a mixed-media sculpture by Marta Figueiredo, created during our year-long collab under the '24 SGEAS Art-Science Initiative @unimelb, and drawing on research I conducted on how remote workers living with chronic illness reshape time&space when working from home | 🧵

❁ If you're considering coming to the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference in Newcastle NSW this year, please do think about contributing to our session that we're organising on the concept of 'acceptance' in geography ❁ We think that it's a really intriguing and timely theme ❁