»bik:
Anne, you are unemployed and you work in trade union organized
groups of the unemployed. Are the unemployed today's »avant-garde
of labour«, because they are living, what many will also
soon be living or is the majority still dreaming the dream of
the economic miracle of regular employment?
Anne
Eberle: I do not think the term of avant-garde applies here.
We are certainly forerunners in many areas of life, because
we must think about a different way of living and figure out
how we can use the time to our advantage. You see, we are no
longer submitted to the conditions of exploitation by capitel
or in other words, our living work has been set free. Of course,
one can better reflect on social conditions and better discuss
a different way of life, if politicians, political parties,
economic federations and, contrary to their better knowledge,
experts would stop daily propagating that wage labor is the central
element of life. They spread confusion. The »superfluous« themselves
are being blamed.
Poverty and unemployment are not seen as economic causes, the
economization of the social is being focused upon. Being freed
from wage labor was supposed to be a victory over wage labor.
Wage labor does not liberate. It causes psychological and physical
illness, but it is the only form available for people to materially
survive better. It is necessary to get the idea out of one's
mind that social and individaul recognition is only possible
through wage labor, because in the prevailing status of wage
labor, there is too little room for living ...more «
Interview Office of Integrative Art
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Exhibitions
2005 »WildCards/Science Fiction«,
Miraikan Museum, Tokyo
Further exibitions:
2005 »WildCards/Science
Fiction« Technische
Universität, Eindhoven · 2005 »WildCards/Science
Fiction« Deutsches
Museum, Munich; 2004 »WildCards/Science Fiction« Deutsches
Hygiene-Museum, Dresden · 2004 »WildCards/Science
Fiction« Nobel
Museum, Stockholm · 2003 »WildCards/Science Fiction« Sprengel
Museum Hannover · 2003 »WildCards/Science Fiction« ZKM,
Karlsruhe · 2003 »WildCards/Science Fiction« Forschungszentrum
caesar, Bonn
A contribution
by the Office of Integrative Art to: »WildCards« (Dellbrügge
und De Moll) as part of the exhibition Science + Fiction.Translation:
comunicada, Lilian-Astrid Geese, Berlin
Authors
Office of Integrative Art - Jörg Amonat, Stefan Krüskemper
Publication
Text published in the booklet »WildCards« as
part of the exhibition Science + Fiction 2002
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