Corin Sworn

WORKHOUSE
2018
Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow International
With the dissolution of boundaries between work and life, flexible labour practices are promoted by enterprise as ameliorative methods for managing (Boltanski and Chiapello 1999). New technological devices have arisen to assist in toggling between shifting employment roles and private lives (Russell Hochschild 2012). Rather than presenting the promised functionality of life management devices as options to be individually selected and employed, Variations of Assembly seeks to situate the audience experientially within a meshwork of human-machine inter-active practices. The drive here is to reflect and embody interactive human-machine relations sufficiently that we might understand the terms of our interaction with them, even when we cannot map their exact procedures.






Boltanski, L. and Chiapello, E. (2007) The New Spirit of Capitalism London and New York: Verso.
Russell Hochschild, A. (1989) The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home New York and London: Viking Penguin Inc.


Further Text:
https://www.frieze.com/article/corin-sworns-illusion-order