Lila Athanasiadou

  • Europe
  • North America

Based in Los Angeles and London

Her work misreads and appropriates artistic, academic and architectural milieus exploring the ways our subjectivities are produced and structured as a result of both linguistic codes and spatial gestures. Lila investigates cultural phenomena weaving history with mythology, political philosophy with psychoanalysics and architectural theory with popular culture.

2. Out of Office

Image credit: Douglas C. McMurtrie, Reconstructing the Crippled Soldier p.6

From capitalist realism to domestic realism, architecture has played a major role in the standardization of work as well as in the engulfing of time dedicated to labour. Read more

6. Is it a strike?

Image reference: https://twitter.com/PiersatPenn/status/925536035693580288

This chapter re-writes the last chapter within the times of global lockdown. Read more

3. Looks like harmonizing growth and desire is gonna be a tricky business

The boudoir, the desk & the couch : Histories, practices and speculations on labour 3. Looks like harmonizing growth and desire is gonna be a tricky business

From 1960’s utopian re-imaginings of the house of the future, to Wages Against Housework, this chapter explores the versatile and invisible character of female labour. Read more

5. Just Do It

Image reference: Pieter Jalhea Furnius Luiheid, “Zeven doodzonden”, 1550-1625.

This chapter explores the blurred boundaries between work and leisure entangling the sources of the social, political and cultural stigma of leisure as laziness. Read more

4. Ora et Labora

Image reference: Black Jesus and the Moneychangers, http://kudzumonamour.blogspot.com/2014/04/

This chapter departs from automation of labour and the evolution of work landscapes from factory counters to office cubicles. Read more

1. Introduction

Image credits: “Radio Factory-women in Labor,” Union to Disunion, projects.leadr.msu.edu/uniontodisuni…tems/show/111.

Work, we love to hate it as we pay tribute to, sing about, reflect on and whine about it. Read more

Exhausted

Learning together, when doing apart

xquisite echo

Learning together, when doing apart