Exiting the Domestic Factory: A B O L I T I O N
Guest event

The Vilnius based Ultimate Leisure Workers’ club calls for a hybrid convergence (online/offline) in Warsaw to engage with the concept of abolitionism as a strategy for exiting the domestic factory.

“The abolition of the family must be the positive creation of a society of generalized human care and queer love.”
- ME O’Brien, To Abolish the Family

As our homes have been centered and intensified in new ways under pandemic conditions as spaces of work, refuge, violence and leisure; abolitionism suggests a radical strategy for the reimagining of these worlds and their social institution, the family.

We see the convergence as a space to communally reflect on the home as a contested, intersectional, space for: reproductive labor, paid-domestic labor, artistic practice and leisure. We also enter the question of the domestic as an ambiguous zone of both refuge (as we are seeing with Polish and Lithuanians opening house to Ukrainian migrants) but also patriarchy, private property, exhaustion and isolation. Together we thus think the domestic as and beyond what autonomists have called “the social factory”, toward a horizon of its abolition, through artistic and social movements.

All the events in the frame of the convergence will take place in the premises of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw on Pańska 3 street. Online parts of the program will be also available via Zoom platform (link here).
 

Ultimate Leisure Workers’ Club
The pandemic has brought about a radical decomposition of traditional organising approaches; resulting in both new compositions and a speculative, horizontal politics that has fed into many different conversations on what is to come. The Ultimate Leisure Workers’ Club, founded in 2020, is very much a child of these circumstances. The unusual format of the nightclub is in part an outcome of this situation and on the other hand, an active effort on our part to radically problematise what, in fact, constitutes a club – its politics, economies, cultures. Skirting the lines between a nightclub and social club; entertainment and politics; the party and the Party; restoration and insurgent regeneration, the ULWC has involved figures ranging from researcher and curator Annie Goh to philosopher Kristin Ross, and music collectives such as BCCAA System Oramics and Datacide. In 2020 the club released the ULWC Reader, with contributions by Annie Goh, Oramics, Mattin, Anthony Iles, amongst many others.

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