[3. december 2003]
pressemeddelelse

Why Work?, !Amnistía! & Civic
Sarah Tripp, Ultra-red & Søren Andreasen
Sparwasser HQ

Why Work?, !Amnistía! & Civic
Sarah Tripp, Ultra-red & Søren Andreasen
Opening December 5. at 7 pm - 11 pm
December 6, 2003 - January 17, 2004

Sparwasser HQ
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Torstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin
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The Why Work?/!Amnistia!/Civic exhibition includes 3 works that each present a specific position within the political terrain that is formed by the relation of existential and productive practices in social space. Based on interactions with actual and structural conditions of living and working, the 3 works present voices of sceptisism, critique and anti-thesis that set out to put adrift/negate structures of social control. Together they establish a 3-part-discussion regarding the way existential and productive practices are articulated and authorized in social space.

Why Work? is a video by the Scottish artist Sarah Tripp. Why Work? expose the absurd and comical reality of authoritarian structures by confronting a privileged teenage girl with a variety of job agents and consultants. The video is a semi-documentary movie that distracts the narratives of authority from a sceptical common sense position of the everyday living.

!Amnistia! is an EP by the Los Angeles based collaboration Ultra-red. The sound material on the ¡Amnistia! EP is composed from recordings made at the May Day 2000 rally in New York which concerned the condition of the undocumented immigrant worker's situation. ¡Amnistia! is a critical action that combine political reality, electronica and collaborative work.

Civic is a pamphlet by the Danish artist Søren Andreasen. Civic contains a text that converts elements from cybernetics, neurology and economy into a synthetic and abstract narrative. The Civic text is at the same time a negation of super-structural rationality and a sci-fi anti-narrative concerning the discursive spectacle of Civilization.

The exhibition is organised by Søren Andreasen