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Henningham Family Press
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Audience Screenprints Live!
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Will you be the one who gets the Maximum Wage?
Event
The Maximum Wage: A Performance Publishing Extravaganza
12 Mar 2016
Event times
Doors open 11am
Drop in anytime until 4pm
Cost of entry
Free Entry
St. Paul's West Hackney Church Hall
Address
- Stoke Newington Road
- London
- N16 7UY
- United Kingdom
Henningham Family Press stage a jubilee for the wage slave! Eight artists provoke, capture, print and publish what Londoners really think about money. LIVE!
About
Join Henningham Family Press on The Maximum WageScreenprint Production Line, printing money that can be used immediately and in several Hackney businesses. Each player's “Wages” will be determined by their randomly allocated status and a spin of the wheel of fortune. Will earnings be capped at 10:1? 100:1? Or “Let's see what you would have won!”
In 1941 George Orwell proposed a 10:1 Maximum Wage:
“A man with £3 a week and a man with £1500 a year can feel themselves fellow creatures, which the Duke of Westminster and the sleepers on the Embankment benches cannot.”
Today, income inequality remains one of the stickiest problems Britain faces. It affects social mobility, healthcare, crime and much more. The Maximum Wage brings Orwell's proposal to life, sparks public debate, then publishes it immediately!
What is work for? Why do some people get paid so much more? Should all work make a profit? Should I be paid to do what I love? Is Austerity really necessary? What is money?
Our artists tackle these questions and more. IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT MONEY.
"The Maximum Wage" is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
