24/7 AT WORK, detail, self-maintenance products and books set up post-and-lintel style, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK, vitrine with intro panel, self-maintenance products and books set up post-and-lintel style, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK, vitrine with intro panel, self-maintenance products and books set up post-and-lintel style with ‘management speak’ list in sign vinyl, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK, ‘management speak’ list detail, vinyl lettering, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK, detail, self-maintenance products and books arranged in vitrine, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK, detail, self-maintenance products and books set up post-and-lintel style, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK, detail, self-maintenance products and books set up post-and-lintel style, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
Anti-perspirant shelf at Boots Pharmacy, inspiration for 24/7 AT WORK, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
Library building designed by Norman Foster, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
Powerade dispenser in Library building, inspiration for 24/7 AT WORK, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
Vitrine designed by Norman Foster, before installation of 24/7 AT WORK, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK, opening event, self-maintenance products and books set up post-and-lintel style in vitrine with ‘management speak’ list in sign vinyl, No Time To Lose exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
24/7 AT WORK Aberdeen (2008)
24/7 AT WORK was part of No Time To Lose, curated by Melina Placentile for Peacock Visual Arts (Aberdeen, Scotland). It was site-specifically located at the Aberdeen Business School Library in Robert Gordon University. The work was made up of a list of ‘management speak,' and a collection of self-maintenance products—including deodorants and power drinks—exhibited alongside critical books on management and branding sourced from the library. A vertical vitrine was positioned by the main entrance just past the turnstiles and a secondary low-rise vitrine was located between these turnstiles.
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. The next year I presented this list along with self-maintenance products and management books at Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) Art Gallery in the MSVU Library (Halifax, 2005). The orange vinyl list printed on the vitrine's in No Time To Lose are an updated version of these earlier lists.
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.
For my full artist statement, see 24/7 AT WORK.