No Pain No Gain. We understand that activists are pushed to the limits for their cause everyday. Being an advocate is an exhausting and difficult job. Labour Intensive focused on making that physical and emotional labour visible through a participatory performance piece highlighting the efforts that are expended in pursuit of social justice. Students maneuvered around campus, connecting the direct engagement of social action with that of corporeal action. The physical traces of the actual labour were captured at the end of their run as they used their sweaty bodies to mark printing plates. Department of Visual Art and Art History printmaking students subsequently transformed the imprint into a poster highlighting the individual organizations’ causes. Labour Intensive illustrates that exertion is both an effort of the body and the energy of an idea, by asserting the body as both instrument and image.