Invigilator Research Network

Study List

Artists we find interesting

• Mierle Laderman Ukeles
• Artist Placement Group
• Lee Lozano
• Tehching Hsieh
• The Art Workers Coalition
• Danzig Baldaev
• Berwick Street Film Collective
• Jules Bastien-Lepage - Jean-François Millet - Gustave Courbet - Jules Breton - Vincent Van Gogh 
• Ashington Group
• AKhRR
• Mary Kelly
• Niutung People's Commune Spare-Time Art Group (and similar groups)
• Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes
• Marion Richardson
• Franz Cižek (and his Juvenile Art Class)
• Käthe Kollwitz
• The Farm Security Administration Photography programme
• Newlyn School (first generation)
• Index of American Design
• Unemployed Artists' Group - American Artists' Union

Texts

On boredom, solitary labour and still labour:

• The Invigilator Western Classics Library

"literally had this conversation with dace the other day - our job is to be both prisoners and wardens":

• Disipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
• Spandau: The Secret Diaries - Albert Speer
• De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
• Selections from the Prison Notebooks - Antonio Gramsci
• Asylums - Erving Goffman
• The Queen vs Trenton Oldfield - Trenton Oldfield
• In Place of Hate - Edmund Clarke

more on work and labour:

• The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism - Richard Sennett
• The Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens - Guy Standing
• The Managed Heart - Arlie Hochschild
• Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber

On institutional clothing:

• Uniforms Exposed - Jennifier Craik
• 'The cultural politics of the uniform' in Fashion Theory, Vol. 7, 2003 - Jennifer Craik
• A Brief Cultural History of Uniforms on Racked, posted 4 Jan 2007 - Rebecca Huval
• Garmet Work: Unpicking the Global Garment Industry on Journal of Modern Craft 2012 - Lise Vinebaum

Links

• Mary Beard talks about becoming a British Museum invigilator for a day to watch visitors 
• Is subverting employment rules as much as possible without breaking them an art work?
• the bit in Zizek ‘sublime object of ideology’ - “even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them” !!
• I think they should have made us do this maths in our interview..
• In praise of the gallery invigilator
• The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World's Performance of Progression
• Women Looking at Art
• Killing Time
• I think they need invigilators to lead this, if they’d noticed us…
• Intro to the Situationists
• ‘jobs involving emotional labor aren’t more likely than other positions to lead to emotional exhaustion. Instead, the biggest predictor of negative effects is a lack of autonomy and involvement with the work.’