Cathleen Schuster & Marcel Dickhage
20 Apr - 21 May 2011
CATHLEEN SCHUSTER & MARCEL DICKHAGE
Following the Line of Arguments
20 April – 21 May 2011
The exhibition focuses on the shifting of jobs by the company Nokia from North Rhine- Westphalian Bochum to the Transylvanian city of Cluj.
The shifting was announced by Nokia in early 2008. High wages and a general high level of costs were cited as reasons. Nokia's decision was followed by a strong reaction of workers, media and politics, right up to a boycott of Nokia products by the German population.
It was announced that the company had completed the 2007 fiscal year with record profits of 7.2 billion euros. The reactions did not influence the course of events.
During their residency in Cluj, Marcel Dickhage and Cathleen Schuster were able to get in contact with the local situation. In the exhibition they show two films. In conceptual analysis they draw closer to the topic within the media of photography, video and installation.
"POI" shows a circumambulation of the Nokia plant in Jucu.
A second film is working with photographic and filmic images by the two artists and with archive material. Marcel Dickhage and Cathleen Schuster want to take up the concept of flexibility and apply it onto the medium of film.
Following the Line of Arguments
20 April – 21 May 2011
The exhibition focuses on the shifting of jobs by the company Nokia from North Rhine- Westphalian Bochum to the Transylvanian city of Cluj.
The shifting was announced by Nokia in early 2008. High wages and a general high level of costs were cited as reasons. Nokia's decision was followed by a strong reaction of workers, media and politics, right up to a boycott of Nokia products by the German population.
It was announced that the company had completed the 2007 fiscal year with record profits of 7.2 billion euros. The reactions did not influence the course of events.
During their residency in Cluj, Marcel Dickhage and Cathleen Schuster were able to get in contact with the local situation. In the exhibition they show two films. In conceptual analysis they draw closer to the topic within the media of photography, video and installation.
"POI" shows a circumambulation of the Nokia plant in Jucu.
A second film is working with photographic and filmic images by the two artists and with archive material. Marcel Dickhage and Cathleen Schuster want to take up the concept of flexibility and apply it onto the medium of film.