24/7 at Work, detail, commercial product vitrine installation, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 2005.
24/7 at Work, installation view, commercial product vitrine installation, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 2005.
24/7 at Work, detail, commercial product vitrine installation, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 2005.
24/7 at Work, detail, commercial product vitrine installation, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 2005.
24/7 at Work, detail, commercial product vitrine installation, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 2005.
24/7 at Work publication, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 2005.
24/7 AT WORK Halifax (2005)
24/7 AT WORK began with a collection of ‘management speak’ which I developed into a list that was first exhibited at Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax, 2004) as a floor-to-ceiling printout. In 2005, I expanded this list into an installation for Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) Art Gallery in the MSVU Library (Halifax). This work was made up of an updated list of ‘management speak,' and a collection of self-maintenance products—including deodorants, painkillers and power drinks—displayed alongside critical books on management and branding sourced from the library.
All the products I focus on in 24/7 AT WORK are aimed at promoting an inexhaustible worker and are used to suggest a critical narrative on the trajectory of work-life trends.
In 2008, 24/7 AT WORK was exhibited again as part of No Time To Lose, curated by Melina Placentile, at Peacock Visual Arts (Aberdeen, Scotland). It was site-specifically located at the Aberdeen Business School Library in Robert Gordon University, positioned in two vitrines in the entrance.