Work Hard! Play Hard! working group proposes an assembly of tools, intuitions, magnetisms, tricks, songs and deep hangouts. Assembly is a circulation of conversations and questions, occasionally interrupted by spontaneous contributions — a gesture, poem, moving practice, track, score or anything else. They imagine assembly not only as an anarchist tool of decision making with its own dynamics, discipline and patient velocities, but also as a medium – of struggle, of joy, of invention and speculation, of listening and performing. Seen not only as a flow of conversations, but also as decentric circles that derive from similar places but have various radius: thematically, spatially and involving temporalities of different kinds. The Assembly will focus on Decentric Circles of Leisure Unrest tackling questions, affections, and experiences on the ways how one can recuperate and regenerate, sorrow and organize, fight back and show teeth of creativity, embrace exhaustion and be together. We will circle and assemble around notions of human strike, time strike, non-work, refusal to work, anti-capitalist leisure, burnout and survival, leisure on a periphery of empires, querness of time, and others with the help of protocols developed by Work Hard! Play Hard! working group.
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! working group (Dzina Zhuk, Aleksei Borisionok, Olia Sosnovskaya, Nicolay Spesivtsev) deals with work, leisure, collective practices and communal living, non-institutional infrastructures and knowledges. The group organised the annual event series WORK HARD! PLAY HARD in Minsk (2016-2020), the performative seminars FATIGUE AND PHARMACHOREOGRAPHY (2017-2019), “STRIKING-EVENT” (2022-2023), and assembly DECENTRIC CIRCLES in Warsaw (2024).
Uladzimir Hramovich is a Belarusian artist who currently lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the Gymnasium-College of Arts in Minsk, Belarus, in 2009 and the graphic arts department of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk in 2015. He has been a member of the “Problem Collective” since 2016. Hramovich works with installations, graphics, and video.
