Dr. Dani Child

Biography

Dani Child's research focuses on creative labor, adopting a historical materialist approach to explore the relationship between contemporary art and capitalism through the lens of labor. Her interests include social artistic practices, contracted labor in art production, and the intersection of contemporary art and social class. She has published articles in journals such as the Oxford Art Journal, Text, Art & Public Sphere, and Sculpture Journal, and has contributed to publications like Red Pepper and Elephant. Dani's monograph 'Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art, Capitalism' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) examines moments where art and labor intersect with capitalism, particularly during the neoliberal period. She served as Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'COVID-19: Impacts on cultural industries and implications for policy' from 2020 to 2022. As an Affiliated Researcher on a joint Brazil/UK project funded by AHRC and FAPESP, she is developing a case study on contracted labor in contemporary art making. Dani is currently co-Lead of the AHRC-funded Mapping Creative Labour Contemporary Art network for 2023-2024 and co-hosts the podcast 'Classed Acts', which engages conversations about working-class experiences in creative higher education and industries.

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