Domestic Resistance: Nohdong/노동 Nongkrong presents a special collaboration by artists and activists in Malaysia and South Korea—Okui Lala, Nasrikah, the Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers Association (PERTIMIG), Aletheia Shin, National House Managers Cooperative, and Korean Women Workers Association. “Nohdong” and “Nongkrong" carries the meaning of "labour" and "casual gathering" in Korean and Indonesian language respectively. During this lecture performance, local specialists and members of the public are invited to share a dining table and map shared reference points in the interconnected struggles of domestic work advocacy, labor diasporas, and the racialization/gendering of caring/cleaning work.

Ong Jo-Lene is an independent curator in Amsterdam-Ipoh. Her long term research on the legacies of colonial histories of exploitation and new possibilities for sustainable and equitable futures was recently advanced through a residency at Delfina Foundation, London and the Ishibashi Foundation/Japan Foundation Research Fellowship on Japanese Art. Jo-Lene teaches theory at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie where she is also part of Urgent Ecologies: Towards A More Sustainable Curriculum working group. Past projects include SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now at National Art Center, Tokyo and Mori Art Museum, Other Futures Festival, and Hartwig Art Foundation Collection | Production Grant 2020-21.

Okui Lala (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is an artist and cultural worker. Her practice spans video and performance to community engagement. Okui’s work explores themes of identities, diaspora, and belonging through the performances of domestic acts or vocational labor, such as sewing, cooking, conversing, and building. Okui also facilitates visual workshops with nonprofit organizations and social groups that work with various communities in Malaysia and Japan. Past presentations include shows at Singapore Biennale (2019), Festival/ Tokyo (Japan, 2019), Yamaguchi Art Centre for Arts and Media (Japan, 2019), Para Site (Hong Kong, 2018), and National Art Gallery (Malaysia, 2017). Okui was a Summer 2022 resident at Delfina Foundation, London and a recipient of the 2017 Japan Foundation Asia Centre Fellowship Grant for her research on migration, mobilities, and identities in Myanmar and Japan.

Nasrikah is an Indonesian migrant worker who has been living in Malaysia since 1997. She is an advisor for PERTIMIG and a field facilitator for IDWF (International Domestic Workers Federation). Her advocacy focused on campaigning for migrant domestic workers to be treated with the same respect, status and access to justice as other workers. Nasrikah is also a poet and coordinator for arts and cultural events.

PERTIMIG is an independent organization fighting for the rights of migrant domestic workers. PERTIMIG’s vision is to advocate for decent work and welfare for the domestic workers and their families in Malaysia. At this moment, PERTIMIG has 140 members and is an affiliate of International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF).

Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin incorporates organizing and collaborative production as a methodology for her socially based art practice. In that process, she explores modules of collaboration and the struggles, and possible practices in collaborative labor. Currently, she is involved in projects related to zine publishing, art making, and cooperative projects that explore locality as a practice.

NHMC is an economic cooperative created in 2004 by female workers engaged in house management and caregiving labor to collectively create jobs and achieve economic independence.

KWWA is an organization in South Korea dedicated to advancing the human rights of working women and promoting gender equality.