Working towards our own obsolescence
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NeMe and curator Régine Debatty have the pleasure to invite you to the NeMe Arts Centre, for the opening of the exhibition Working towards our own obsolescence. The opening will be at 7:30pm on Friday, 18 June 2021.
Since the Industrial Revolution the role of the worker has not only been clearly defined but also protected by laws, agreements and charters. In the 21st century, the so-called “age of AI” this role and its safety net are steadily being eroded through both geopolitics and biopolitics. Even when we are not working we still produce value and profit through the contents we upload and the everyday gestures we perform on social media and other online services.
This exhibition features the work of artists who are critically investigating the ways the Silicon Valley economy is affecting labour conditions. Their works help us understand the pervasive constrictions we, as passive consumers, have unintentionally aided implement.
The proposed works fall into five spheres of investigation: the myth that the machines are replacing us; the emergence of an army of invisible, or rather invisibilised workers; the transformation of labour conditions through precariousness and the atomisation of tasks; the body of workers disciplined to act like machines and finally, the ways workers and consumers can fight back with not just resistance but positive alternatives.
These sections will form a comprehensive narrative with which visitors to the exhibition and its accompanying events, will be encouraged to form a critical understanding of the dynamics and algorithms that imperceptibly guide our everyday (working) existence.
The participating artists are Pippin Barr; Larisa Blazic; Peter Buczkowski; Stéphane Degoutin, Gwenola Wagon, and Pierre Cassou-Noguès; Dasha Ilina; Sanela Jahić; Lisa Ma; Liz Magic Laser; Julien Prévieux; Laurel Ptak.
Exhibition duration: 18/06/2021-30/07/2021
Opening days/hours: Tuesday–Friday: 5:30–8:30pm, Saturday: 10:00am–1:00pm
Covid-19
Note that for your protection and ours, all visitors to the exhibition should wear a mask and keep spatial distancing. The number of visitors we will allow in the space at any one time will be limited.
Address
NeMe Arts Centre
Corner of Ellados and Enoseos streets
3041 Limassol
Cyprus
Sponsors
Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Medochemie, AlphaMega
Banner image credit: Courtesy of Tama66, licensed under CC0 on Pixnio.
