Unemployed Employees
04 Apr - 30 May 2009
© Aydan Murtezaoglu & Bülent Sangar
UNEMPLOYED EMPLOYEES – i found you a new job!, Ausstellungsskizze, 2009
UNEMPLOYED EMPLOYEES – i found you a new job!, Ausstellungsskizze, 2009
UNEMPLOYED EMPLOYEES
i found you a new job!
April 4th – May 30th, 2009
In their new co-production “UNEMPLOYED EMPLOYEES – i found you a new job!” the artists question the meaning of work by means of an expansive installation. While some people are occupied with folding and unfolding clothes at an endless assembly line-like table, perfume is sprayed in another corner of the space like the sales tactics in department stores and drugstores. The employees were signed up for these jobs after an application procedure; they have a break room at their disposal, which is also meant to be a room for communication and discussion with visitors. In a “Guide” that is applied to the walls, the artists formulate their thoughts and questions about the theme of economic, social and artistic production under headings such as displacement, emancipatory creativity, schematization, positioning, hierarchical relations,
freedom, organisation, communication, identity, proletariat and “precariat”, participation, control, alienation, representation, sacrifice or discourse. One of the central questions in this guide is: “Is it a matter now of interpreting the world, or changing it?”
On May 1 a demonstration by the artists on the theme of the exhibition will take place from 3 to 5 pm. Afterwards, the new publication of the monographs by Aydan Murtezaoglu & Bülent Sangar will be celebrated.
May 01, 2 – 9 pm, May 02, 11 am – 8 pm, May 03, 11am – 6 pm
Closed on April 10 and May 21, 2009
i found you a new job!
April 4th – May 30th, 2009
In their new co-production “UNEMPLOYED EMPLOYEES – i found you a new job!” the artists question the meaning of work by means of an expansive installation. While some people are occupied with folding and unfolding clothes at an endless assembly line-like table, perfume is sprayed in another corner of the space like the sales tactics in department stores and drugstores. The employees were signed up for these jobs after an application procedure; they have a break room at their disposal, which is also meant to be a room for communication and discussion with visitors. In a “Guide” that is applied to the walls, the artists formulate their thoughts and questions about the theme of economic, social and artistic production under headings such as displacement, emancipatory creativity, schematization, positioning, hierarchical relations,
freedom, organisation, communication, identity, proletariat and “precariat”, participation, control, alienation, representation, sacrifice or discourse. One of the central questions in this guide is: “Is it a matter now of interpreting the world, or changing it?”
On May 1 a demonstration by the artists on the theme of the exhibition will take place from 3 to 5 pm. Afterwards, the new publication of the monographs by Aydan Murtezaoglu & Bülent Sangar will be celebrated.
May 01, 2 – 9 pm, May 02, 11 am – 8 pm, May 03, 11am – 6 pm
Closed on April 10 and May 21, 2009