Meshdia: Reworking the Realities of Labour
PrÄsentation 19.07.2024 19:00
Mit Alessandro Longo, Pekko Koskinen, Laura Kloeckner und Abhishek Nilamber
Sprache Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt
FREIER EINTRITT Spenden erwünscht
BESUCH SAVVY ist mit dem Rollstuhl zugänglich
Activist artists and makers are frequently toolmakers, committed to sharing their know-how. Their most appropriate textual genre may not be the manifesto but the manual.
The contemporary economy is not concerned with our labour. We are increasingly recognized only by our products, whether as cultural workers, freelancers or platform workers. As a result, labour is slowly diluting away from societal discourse. How can we counteract this (forced) act of disappearance? How can we reconceive labour, starting from ourselves, finding new grounds for its existence?
Meshdia – an emergent organisation from the auspices of SAVVY Contemporary's UNITED SCREENS – invites you to speculate on the future forms of labour, its value and our capabilities for creating them. As a bonus, you will receive invitations to playable labour-prototypes.
Meshdia researches, designs, and prototypes new circulations for cultural work(s). Its central inquiry: How to compose and enact new architectures of culture, rather than creating works within existing structures? Meshdia conceives media as networks and networks as media.
ALESSANDRO Y LONGO is a writer and researcher based in Berlin. His work reflects critically on hegemonic techno-politics, cultural evolutions in the age of networks, radical imagination, and systems of change. His research is channelled through the collective body of REINCANTAMENTO, an independent group dedicated to exploring the intricate relationship between technology, magic, and society.
PEKKO KOSKINEN designs social realities as playable forms. Among his designs are fictional religions, hijacked political identities, potential economies, and self-designs. Sometimes these designs are called art (by other people), ending in institutions such as Athens and Mercosul Biennials and NY MoMA. Pekko has also been a member of YKON, co-directed the Reality Research Center, and co-founded SoSA (Social Space Agency) and ECSA (Economic Space Agency).
Visual Juan Pablo García Sossa
Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des Ausstellungsprojekts LABO*R, was im Rahmen unseres 15-monatigen Programm TRANSITIONS stattfindet, und wird von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien gefördert.