WERKER Collective

Since 2009, WERKER Collective—founded by Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos—has explored the political potential of image production. Inspired by workers’ photography of the 1920s, their practice brings together art, activism and archiving as tools for collective resistance.

In this talk, WERKER Collective looks back on more than ten years of creating infrastructures for resistance. From their origins in WERKER Magazine—a publication that laid the foundation for their collaborative ethos—to recent projects with trade unions, domestic workers and queer networks, they show how art can become a site of collective agency.

Through their long-term engagement with archiving, self-publishing and organising study groups, WERKER Collective poses an urgent question: how can we build infrastructures of resistance that centre care, solidarity and the bodies that have been marginalised by history?