While The Cat Walks

While the cat walks on a narrow line back and forth ( and back).

Women in Work. Mujer, Arte y Trabajo en la Globalización (Woman, Art, and Work in Globalization)

Opening: March 7, 2017, 7:30 PM Exhibition Hall, Rectorate Building, Polytechnic University of Valencia

Also shown at:

MAU (Mostra de art urbà), Roca Umbert, Granollers (Barcelona), 2017

"While the cat walks on a narrow line back and forth (and back)" proposes a critical reflection on the evolution of labor rights and major social issues and their manifestation in the current globalized world—both in the national territory and in relation to delocalized textile industries (that is, first-world industries that produce the majority of their products in the third world). A central element of the performance is the literal interpretation of the fact that labor rights, which were fiercely battled for over a period of more than 150 years in most European countries, are currently being "trampled upon" (or disregarded).

The performance puts forth a vision of the current social reality by looking back to its origins in the era of the first industrialization, in order to understand the raison d'être of labor law, the radical transformations of the social fabric throughout time, and the survival of many past problems, their resuscitation, and renewed reproduction in the modern labor systems of mature capitalist countries, both within and outside their national borders.