When hinterlands are no longer, the city consumes itself. Work digests the world. No longer backgrounded, these strained metabolic provision zones rebel—as flood, fire, scarcity, refusal, and regeneration. The supposed neat divide between centre and periphery collapses. Can we metabolise differently—slower, fairer—with care as infrastructure and particular kinds of austerity as collective joy?
A Metabolic Commons–Many Hands Make Light Work
Year produced: 2025
Single-channel video with synchronized three-channel headphone audio installation
WorkOverTime - Louise Carver and Jamie Allen
WorkOverTime (Louise Carver & Jamie Allen) is a foundry for relationships with time and nature, challenging supposed dichotomies between ecology and economics, creating worlds and practices where human, animal, and earthly bodies find mutualities and solidarities. How do we choreograph both value creation and regenerative cyclings of work and rest, production and decay, living and nonliving? Through events, media, narrative, collaborative infrastructures and cultural organising — and drawing from critical geography, feminist theory, and experimental media — WorkOverTime makes propositions for living otherwise, in the compost of capital, in the rhythms of refusal, in metabolic solidarity with others.