ART IN GENERAL, NEW YORK (US)
The New York City premiere of Hand over Heels, a performance by Barbora Kleinhamplová, performed by Aidan Farragher, Amélie Gaulier, Rebecca Loyd-Jones, Tyler Rai, Anna Slate, and Carlo Antonio Villanueva.
Hand over Heels is a performance that takes over Art in General’s office to reflect on the experience of work within institutional structures. It stems from research the artist has conducted on our contemporary relationship to labor and its uncertainties, and asks: what norms must we conform to, however unstable, in order to get by? What kind of work do we want to do? How do we measure and define our capacities? Unfolding over the course of eight hours—the duration of a typical workday—performers scale office furniture while reciting excerpts from cover letters and psychosocial questionnaires relating to unpaid internships. Meanwhile, a giant pair of hands inflates and deflates under the performer-workers’ supervision, simultaneously affirming and questioning our dominant labor systems today.
Hand over Heels was co-organized by The Jindřich Chalupecký Society and Art in General. Special Project Support kindly provided by Residency Unlimited, Czech Center New York, Czech Republic Ministry of Culture, Denise Penizzotto, and Patrice Yourdon.
Hand over Heels was co-organized by The Jindřich Chalupecký Society and Art in General. Special Project Support kindly provided by Residency Unlimited, Czech Center New York, Czech Republic Ministry of Culture, Denise Penizzotto, and Patrice Yourdon.
