Ground Provisions 

For the closing weekend of LABO*R, we invite you to a reading camp inspired by Stefano Harney and Tonika Sealy Thompson’s text of the same name which instigates an integrative space to undertake the necessary root-working to grow ground provisions. Ground provisions as in relational resources, infrastructure, tools, and value systems needed for cultural work claim its autonomy and locality. 

JEMMA DESAI is a cultural worker and somatic facilitator whose work spans artistic and administrative practice, writing, curation, performance, and other forms of articulation. She is (re)searching new ways to make and circulate outside and inside cultural production, with and against institutions in order to question the role of testimony, desire and political commitment in the social relations that make cultural work.