Camille Lemille
The Biennale’s Invisible Workers - Performance
22.09
Camille Lemille activated her publication The Biennale’s Invisible Workers together with the new participants in the postgraduate Curatorial Studies programme.
About the project
Ticket controllers paid €3.80 an hour, cultural mediators paid a pittance, security guards working 6 days a week, 8 hours a day, with no lunch break and paid less than €800 a month…
Camille Lemille invites you to meet the people who work behind the scenes of the Venice Biennale: security guards, ticket controllers, cleaning staff, mediators, guides, and many others. Yet, remarkably, very few of them are directly employed by the Biennale. For her self-published 𝘉𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘦’𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴, Lemille spent two months listening, asking questions, and joining a discussion group with these workers to explore their experiences of precarious contracts and poor working conditions.
The book gives voice to their experiences through a performative reading drawn from their real-life stories, shedding light on the working conditions behind one of the world’s most prominent art events.
To purchase a copy, please visit Camille Lemille's website: camillelemille.be. French, Dutch, English and Italian version available.
Pics of the presentation © Sara Plantefève-Castryck
