Künstler organisieren sich – „art but fair“

Zunächst veröffentlichten tausende von Künstlern auf der Facebook-Seite „Die traurigsten & unverschämtesten Künstlergagen und Auditionserlebnisse“ Erlebnisse, die ihre schlechten Arbeitsbedingungen ins Licht rückten. Mittlerweile hat sich die Initiative „art but fair“ gegründet.

Interessant sind dazu auch die Arbeiten von Axel Haunschild zum „Beschäftigungssystem Theater„.… Mehr lesen...

“Image Employment” at MoMA PS1 (Contemporary Art Daily)

Interesting exibition – interesting videos about employment

„Image Employment presents recent moving image works that investigate various modes of contemporary production. The selected works illustrate differing approaches to the subject, from observational films that avoid participation in capitalistic image creation, to videos that engage corporate omnipotence by employing its processes, as well as works that complicate these two tendencies.

Many of the films in the exhibition take an oppositional approach to commercial image making. In Kevin Jerome Everson’s Quality Control African-American workers from an Alabama dry-cleaning factory are shown relentlessly carrying out their jobs in real time. Everson explores the duration and physicality of labor through a series of lengthy shots that draw attention to particular tasks such as working the pant press or ironing shirts.

Alternately, many video works in this exhibition employ corporate processes and communication by reiterating corporate imagery and intervening into sites of emergent industries and

Mehr lesen...