SWEAT - Smells of Labour | Sandra Chatterjee and Friends

While clothing from unjust international production conditions is displayed in local boutiques, the physical risk and effort that goes into each of these garments is outsourced to India, China or Bangladesh. The sweat of labour and fear, the pesticides, oils and solvents are masked and suppressed - and not just in fashion production. Sweat is a carrier of this industrialised exploitation and at the same time an expression of the uniqueness of each individual person in this machinery. The performance ‘SWEAT - Smells of Labour’ picks up on this complex entanglement and develops a multi-layered examination of the smells associated with work.

‘SWEAT - Smells of Labour’ uses dance, music and olfactory performance to examine sweat in the context of consumption, work, exploitation, social class and neo-colonial trade and production relations. Workers' songs and percussion meet electronic soundscapes. Smells determine dance and storytelling, the performers translate sensual perception into moving impulses. Workers themselves have their say through interviews and sweat-soaked clothing.

08. & 09. november | Einstein Kultur, followed by an artist's talk