Work it, feel it! • Kunsthalle Wien • Karlsplatz • Vienna Biennial for Change • 2017
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Artists • Apparatus 22 • Hannah Black • Danilo Correale • Juliette Goiffon & Charles Beauté • Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet • Shawn Maximo • Sidsel Meineche Hansen • Toni Schmale • Romana Schmalisch & Robert Schlicht • Visible Solutions
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Curators • Anne Faucheret • Eva Meran
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The exhibition Work it, feel it! is dedicated to the work of the future and the future of work. The exhibition focuses on the demands placed on the human body – especially on the female-read body – and its possibilities to act, as seen against the backdrop of an increasingly automated workplace. What are the mechanisms of discipline and control that have been applied to the mind, and above all to the body, to make it an efficient production tool and a pillar of consumerism?
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Until the mid-20th century, within the disciplinary societies, “enclosed milieus” (“milieux clos”, e.g. schools, factories, clinics, etc.) served the formation of bodies, whereas today’s control societies aim to make bodies useful and teachable by means of information. At the same time, new techniques are developing, which serve less to adapt the bodies for the production sector, but rather to train them – for the sake of physicality itself – to become ever more “perfect”, physically fit and (leisure-)consuming subjects.
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Which ideals are being pushed? And what happens to the bodies that resist and escape optimization? Between utopia and dystopia, between speculation and analysis, the exhibition’s artists outline working environments of the future against the background of their economic and political instrumentalization.
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Link to exhibition's website
https://kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibition/work-it-feel-it
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Link to exhibition's booklet
https://kunsthallewien.at/assets/exhibitions/2017-06-work-it-feel-it/Work-it-feel-it_BOOKLET.pdf
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Image credits from left to right, from top to bottom
1 & 2 • Juliette Goiffon et Charles Beauté, Upgrade (overall equipment), 2017. Courtesy of the artists and Gallery Eva Meyer Paris.
3 • Danilo Correale, No More Sleep No More, 2014-2016. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Raucci/Santamaria Naples/Milan.
4 • Danilo Correale, Boosted, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Raucci/Santamaria Naples/Milan
5 • Exhibition view. From left to Right: Sidsel Meineche Hansen, ONEself, 2015, Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo Gallery London; Visible Solutions, Clarity, 2010, Courtesy of the artists; Toni Schmale, hafenperle II, from the series: fuhrpark. was das / der neue gefährt sein kann, 2013, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Christine König Vienna.
6 • Exhibition view.
7 • Apparatus 22, Untitled V1, V2, V5, V7, V8 from the series ARRANGEMENTS & HAZE, 2017. Courtesy of the artists and Galleriapiù Bologna and Kilobase Bucharest.
8 • Louise Hervé & Clovis Maillet, Spectacles without Objects (Saint-Simonian Songs), 2016/17. Courtesy of the artists.
9 • Sidsel Meinecke Hansen, The Manual Labour Series, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Malmö Kunsthal.
10 • Exhibition view. From left to right: Danilo Correale, No More Sleep No More, 2017, detail; Sidsel Meineche Hansen, The Manual Labour Series, 2013; Hannah Black, Bodybuilding, 2015, Courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa London.
11 • Shawn Maximo, Creeper Comfort (Speciality Multi), 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
