“Mother Controller” by The Ironing Maidens
Mother Controller
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- Mother Controller
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‘Mother Controller’ is a projection sculpture using mapped video footage, animated elements and domestic objects. The work foregrounds low and unpaid labour. It references the biased, factory hiring strategies that exploit and enforce the sterotype of “nimble fingers”, and the impact this detailed and repetitive work has on women’s bodies.
This trend that has moved from the fashion industry to the IT and new tech sector is seeing millions of women existing in modern day slavery conditions. Their slavery builds irons, for other slaves to iron.
