No Time To Lose, Milena Placentile and Monika Vykoukal ed., cover detail, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2010.
No Time To Lose, Milena Placentile and Monika Vykoukal ed., Cathy Busby's 24/7 AT WORK (2008) installation spread, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2010.
No Time To Lose, Milena Placentile and Monika Vykoukal ed., cover detail, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2010.
NO TIME TO LOSE (2010)
Curator Milena Placentile's No Time to Lose featuring Cathy Busby's 24/7 AT WORK installed at Peacock Visual Arts (Aberdeen, Scotland) in 2008.
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).
In 2008, I recreated 24/7 AT WORK as site-specific installation at the Aberdeen Business School Library in Robert Gordon University for No Time To Lose. 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. The orange vinyl list printed on the vitrine's are an updated version of my 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.