How to do Anything (Breather)
Künstler/in
Birke Gorm
(geb. 1986 in Hamburg, Deutschland)
Date2018
ClassificationsObjekt
MediumJute, Aluminium
Dimensions120 × 100 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28387
DescriptionCurrent organisational forms of labor, to which voluntary self-regulation and self-optimisation of the individual are paramount, are the subject of the series 'How to do anything'. The title is the slogan of the online community WikiHow, which complies instructions on the correct conduct in any situation. Illustrations of how to behave professionally, optimise one’s performance at work, acquire presentation skills, or teach others to do a job, serve as the template for these woven works. In a multistep process the respective images are transferred to unraveled gunny sacks, using scraps and threads of jute to be reworked into monochrome compositions. Here the sack — as an archaic container of goods and a symbol of their global trade — is brought face to face with forms of subjectification in modern-day economies, just as aesthetics of the digital are juxtaposed with those of the haptic and artisanal.[[missing key: detailactions.not-available-label]]
