How Was Your Day?
The artist’s relationship with, as well as participation in, non-creative industries is a taboo subject today. The point of departure for How Was Your Day? is derived from the artist’s under-recognized labor outside of the art world.
The artist’s day job is unveiled.
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How Was Your Day? represents the discrepancy between an artist’s lived reality and society’s romanticized understanding of a creative career. The fact is, the vast majority of successful artists today do not solely support themselves via their artistic practices, and they often achieve financial stability by holding secondary workforce jobs.
The exhibition consists of live broadcasts featuring the daily working lives of acclaimed performance artists Fabian Hachen and Micha Düblin, who are employed as a website developer and a teacher, respectively.
Two lifestreams (one for each artist) were exhibited in a derelict space under a highway bridge in Neuchâtel; without any viewers, it was entirely “unseen,” a reflection of the public’s deliberate disregard for many artists’ dual professional lives.
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Fakt ist, dass die grosse Mehrheit der Künstler/innen einem zweiten, nicht künstlerischen Arbeitsverhältnis nachgehen. Doch diese Realität – das Verhältnis der Kunst zur Sphäre des rein Ökonomischen – markiert in der Kunst ein zentrales Tabu. Diesem Thema nahmen wir uns mit dem Künstlerduo Thylacine an und projiziert in einer Livesendung den 'normalen' Arbeitsalltag der beiden Künstler. Um dem Tabu gerecht zu werden, hat die Ausstellung unter Abwesenheit jeglicher Besucher stattgefunden. Die umfangreiche Dokumentation des Experiments stellt den einzigen Zugriff auf die nicht öffentliche Situation dar.Information
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The exhibition and performance took place on August 15, 2011 at the OLM Space in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.Collaborators
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