13th – 16th February 2011
Campus Pappelallee, Pappelallee 8-9, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
When the artwork became the product to be exchanged in a field of shifting market forces, economic benefit and hierarchies of entrepreneurial status, being an artist became a ‘state of employment’.
By introducing the notion of cultural labor and its respective evaluation, as the artwork’s content, this exhibition attempts to explore the conditions of ‘employment’ for young cultural workers.
Educational institutes aiming at extending one’s productive potentiality and internships appearing to enrich one’s working experience, can be approached as exemplar social structures of this market. By configuring enquiries around the desire to succeed within the cultural field, this exhibition attempts to unfold the ‘manufacturing’ of artists into employees and the use of authoritative status within working conditions.
Listen to the TCWL.M’11 Complaint Choir here!
Project Coordinator: Andreas Pashias & Sarah Walters