𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲

Friday, Sept 15th, 6pm
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge Street, NYC

The artists will discuss their works featured in the exhibition, "No More 24! May Day Tapestry" (2023) and "Care Guardian" (2023), followed by a meditative participatory performance including poetry by Louisa Lam and stories from AIW home care workers.

Abang-guard is a collaboration between artists Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug that explores the intersections of immigration, labor, and visibility. As Filipinx/o artists and museum workers, they cultivate an awareness of institutional non-space which consists of the peripheral structures and hidden labor that support cultural framing. Abang-guard’s projects and performances reveal alternate possibilities within museum spaces and build processes of intimacy and care between bodies and objects in order to envision other ways of seeing, activating, and producing cultural value.

Louisa Lam holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Queens and works as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her writing and poems have been published in New York Magazine, The Greensboro Review, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Perspective web series.

Ain’t I a Woman!? (AIW) is a campaign led by immigrant women home care workers organizing against 24-hour workdays in New York City.

Photo by Sixing Xu