*Postponed* The Waitresses in Scotland, 1978

This talk will look at The Waitresses’ Performentation by L.A. Women Artists, performed in Edinburgh and Glasgow in September 1978. Emerging out of the Los Angeles Women’s Building, The Waitresses – founded by Anne Gauldin and Jerri Allyn – produced public performance work between 1978 and 1984 rooted in its members’ shared experiences working as waitresses. Here their work will be situated as an essential corrective to a significant oversight in contemporary art-historical discourses on art and labour, which have almost exclusively focussed on the labour that goes into art-making directly, at the expense of consideration of the labour performed outside the field of art which financially supports and facilitates art production. The Waitresses’ practice will be discussed alongside more recent examples of artists producing work informed by their ‘second jobs’, including Shona Macnaughton, Mark McGowan and the low__demand Instagram account. This research sits alongside more sociological research I’ve recently been conducting into art in the gig economy, looking at art practitioners who support their work through ‘second shifts’ in the gig economy.

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