This Artwork is About the Sharing Economy
Custom-sewn pillows, dimensions variable, 2016.
In collaboration with Emily Martinez as Anxious to Make.
Description
This Artwork is About the Sharing Economy is a set of 25 custom-sewn pillows made from images of cloud workers who advertise their services as “human billboards” on a website called Fiverr.com. Anxious to Make commissioned each cloud worker to write the phrase, “This Artwork is About the Sharing Economy,” on their bodies. The pillows are positioned in gallery contexts in such a way to provoke viewers to lay their own flesh on the skin of hired workers, in order to question viewers’ comfort with the sanctioned economic exploitation entailed in the gig-economy.
Exhibitions
“Who Does What?,” Filodrammatica Gallery, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia. February 14 - Mar 1, 2019.
“Precarious Life 2.0,” The Luminary, St. Louis, MO. Jun 24 - July 15 2017.
“Side Gig: Anxious To Make,” B4BEL4B, Oakland, CA. Nov 19 - Dec 15 2016.
The work installed in Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia (2019).
The work installed in The Luminary, St. Louis, MO (2017).