The Gig is Up - Exhibition
The Gig is Up is an exhibition about cloud workers and forms of distributed and outsourced labour: the so-called ‘gig economy’.
The Gig is Up - How New Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of Work is an exhibition about cloud workers and forms of distributed and outsourced labour: the so-called ‘gig economy’. Online platforms – from Airbnb and Uber to Fiverr – which facilitate flexible working, suggest that it is possible to live more freely, more productively, and more profitably. Better even, they promise that you can be more independent and live according to your own rules. But it’s mostly a false promise. In the end, these platforms are profit-seeking companies.
The
works in this exhibition don’t just show the absurdities and delights of
cloud-based labour, but also suggest ways to actualise the potential of the
cloud-producing technologies to different, unexpected ends.*
The Gig is Up is curated by Sarah Cook and V2_.
*this text has been compiled by a cloud worker based on materials provided by the curatorial team
FEATURED ARTISTS
Addie
Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia
Erica
Scourti
Human Index
Jeff
Crouse
Joseph
DeLappe
Liat
Berdugo and Emily Martinez
Prayas
Abhinav
Tyler
Coburn
Yuri Pattison
OPENING HOURS & ENTRANCE
25 November – 18 December
Every Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00h – 19:00h
(Except Fridays 12.00h - 21.00h, see dekunstavond.nl)
Entrance: 3 EUR (payable by cash or pin)
EVENTS
27 October: The Gig is Up: Cloud Labour Night
24 November: The Gig is Up: Opening
date tbc: The Gig is Up: Launch of the new Crowded.fm by Jeff Crouse
15 December: The Gig is Up: Finissage with a performative lecture by Prayas Ahbinavs, and the launch of the next issue of post-writer.xyz, as well as the launch of List Berdugo and Emily Martinez' ePub.
For Facebook event click here.
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On Thursday December 15 we present the closing event of our exhibition ‘The Gig Is Up: How New Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of Work’.
On November 24 we celebrate the opening of our exhibition ‘The Gig is Up - How New Technologies Are Reshaping the Future of Work’. Everyone is welcome to join us in the celebration.
I’m that angel is a cycle of writings and performances by Tyler Coburn that explore the conditions of how we work on and against the computer, narrated from the perspective of a “content farmer”.
The 'Cloud Labour Night' looks behind the shiny surface of platform capitalism produced by Silicon Valley’s powerful ideology machines and their local offshoots. What’s the cost of the gig economy’s promised flexibility, and who’s paying it?
Anxious to Make / Making you is a work by Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez.
AddWords is a live performance developed and produced by Manetta Berends, Lucia Dossin and Max Dovey
Pablo Garcia is trained as an architect. His work ranges from exhibited artworks, provocations to research studies.
Erica Scourti is an artist who works across different media and draws on personal experience to explore life, labour, gender and love in a fully mediated world.
Tyler Coburn is an artist and writer based in New York, working in performance, installation, writing, and sound.
Addie Wagenknecht is an artist whose work explores the tension between expression and technology.
Jeff Crouse creates software and installations using generative graphics, crowdsourcing, computer vision, physical computing, projection, popular web platforms, parody, and satire.
Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator whose work strives to create an expanded and thoughtful consideration for digital culture.
Yuri Pattison works with digital media, video and sculpture to explore the political implications of new technologies and the changing nature of visual culture in the Internet age.
The Future of Work (2016) is a publication by Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez).
Feature by Joris Lindhout & kenmore005 about the Cloud Labour Night, published in Metropolis M.
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