Yerba Buena Center

Office Space

07 Nov 2015 - 14 Feb 2016

© Courtesy of the Artist and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
OFFICE SPACE
7 November 2015 - 14 February 2016

ARTISTS
Cory Arcangel
Mark Benson
KP Brehmer
Stephanie Davidson
Joseph DeLappe
Alex Dordoy
Jacob Broms Engblom
Harun Farocki
Manuel Fernández
Paul Flannery
Bea Fremderman
Joel Holmberg
Josh Kline
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Kim Laughton
Julien Prévieux
Laurel Ptak
Sean Raspet
Idle Screenings
Jasper Spicero
Mika Tajima
Pilvi Takala
Ignacio Uriarte
Andrew Norman Wilson
Haegue Yang

Office Space cleverly subverts contemporary office culture as a means to explore labor practices in the 21st century post-industrial economy.

As offices become mobile, the nine-to-five becomes a nonstop 24-hour cycle, and the service and information economy predominates, this exhibition reflects on the rise of "immaterial labor" in developed countries. Through video, sculpture, painting, and installation, the artists in Office Space interrogate universally recognized aspects of office architecture, design, aesthetics, and protocols as a means to understand the shift toward immaterial labor practices.
 

Tags: Cory Arcangel, KP Brehmer, Alex Dordoy, Harun Farocki, Josh Kline, Julien Prévieux, Sean Raspet, Mika Tajima, Pilvi Takala, Ignacio Uriarte, Haegue Yang