A collective action involving three participants. It is designed as a communication loop, to allow an artworker to present a live interpretation of interventions undertaken by a wageworker while on shift and communicate this live interpretation back again. The loop is completed by a relay-interpreter posing as a gallery visitor who performs the data received back to the wageworker.
The wageworker will perform actions while invigilating at a central London museum. They will then text an account of the actions to the artworker, situated in Five Years.
The artworker will take these inputs as instructions to construct an installation in the gallery. The artworker will be in communication with the relay-interpreter, describing what has been carried out in the gallery.
The relay-interpreter will take this information and communicate it to the wageworker through coded actions resembling behaviors of a typical museum visitor. Upon receiving this message, the wageworker will undertake another intervention, in response to or build upon the actions of the artworker.
The invigilator will text an account of these subsequent actions to the artworker and the loop will begin again.
List materials and equipment: Wall and floor space
DROSS are a group of gallery invigilators who collaborate to covertly perform art actions while at work. ‘Strategies for facilitating artwork during wagework #1: Remote Relay [Walkie-Talkie]’ is an attempt to explore the publicly-presentable potential of such a practice.
The wageworker will perform actions while invigilating at a central London museum. They will then text an account of the actions to the artworker, situated in Five Years.
The artworker will take these inputs as instructions to construct an installation in the gallery. The artworker will be in communication with the relay-interpreter, describing what has been carried out in the gallery.
The relay-interpreter will take this information and communicate it to the wageworker through coded actions resembling behaviors of a typical museum visitor. Upon receiving this message, the wageworker will undertake another intervention, in response to or build upon the actions of the artworker.
The invigilator will text an account of these subsequent actions to the artworker and the loop will begin again.
List materials and equipment: Wall and floor space
DROSS are a group of gallery invigilators who collaborate to covertly perform art actions while at work. ‘Strategies for facilitating artwork during wagework #1: Remote Relay [Walkie-Talkie]’ is an attempt to explore the publicly-presentable potential of such a practice.
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Saturday 12 May 2018
2-3pm
DROSS
Strategies For Facilitating Artwork During Wagework #1:
Remote Relay [Walkie-Talkie]
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