Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity

2018
Calling for Solidarity: Conversational Participative piece as an uprising of the creative worker.

Unionize is a response to the current labour conditions in the creative industry. The installation consists of a performer who inhabits a shelving unit while facing the contemporary crisis of platform capitalism, where most of our desires, ideals, and dreams are commodified. Exhausted from constant labour caused by the merging of work and life, the creative worker performs in a never-ending shift. Unionize invites visitors to establish common interests through performative design. It explores what a union for creative industry could be, aiming to connect and emancipate all 'users-playbourers'.

  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: a performer in blue overalls inhabits a shelving unit, discs shout 'OVERWORK'
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: discs on a shelving unit read 'ANXIETY', 'NO TIME', 'UNIONIZE' posters loom behind
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: a performer stretches a leg off the shelving unit by 'OVERWORK', 'UNIONIZE' walls
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: a figure drapes a banner over the shelving unit, a giant face ringed by marbles
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: visitors watch the performer wave from the shelving unit, a disc reads 'NO TIME'
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: flags fly, the performer sits on the shelving unit by a wall of 'UNIONIZE' posters
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: three posters, a halftone face in glasses under pink 'UNIONIZE', 'NOW or later'
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: on the banner a wide-eyed face gapes amid striped marbles, pearls, sky-clad cubes
  • Unionize: Abolish the Stage of Precarity: the performer leans from a red ladder to place a '4H' disc on the shelving unit