Memory Work is an immersive speculative soundscape that envisions new roles of labour for women. It engages with ethical and moral questions of what a feminine economy could be.
Memory Work is an immersive audio track that serves as a future scenario, inviting listeners to imagine a potential future environment for women’s work in Toronto. The project is a collaboration between women’s collective At the Moment and foresight studio From Later, with contributions from racialized women in Toronto. It engages with ethical and moral questions around care and labour across time, and uses strategic foresight methods to develop research-based future scenarios for new ways of defining, acknowledging, and valuing the wide spectrum of women’s work. The soundscape portrays new roles of labour like the creative biologist, surrogate entrepreneur, cosmetic healer, purposeful placement officer, and environmental steward. Listeners are encouraged to use Memory Work to generate their future experiences, visions, vignettes, and artifacts. It is a part of the exhibition This Women's Work at Myseum Intersections 2020, which was postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. Through Memory Work, the project hopes to empower listeners to imagine collective future memory and to question what a feminine economy could be. The project invites individuals to visualize a possible future environment for women's work in Toronto, and to engage in individual and communal memories of women's work while considering new socio-economic paradigms for the future.
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