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C21ST ART-WORKER
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Exhibition
C21ST ART WORKER
18 Dec 2015 – 31 Dec 2015
Event times
24/7
Old Street
Address
- Old Street
- London
England - EC1V 9FR
- United Kingdom
An offsite project from Deptford X places a billboard, C21ST ART-WORKER by Alison Jones and Milly Thompson, on a bus shelter at Old Street Roundabout. The project extends Deptford X’s 2015 festival theme, Deptford Conversations, into a site for conversation: the bus stop.
About
Alison Jones and Milly Thompson’s poster, C21ST
ART-WORKER, is a photomontage that sets gendered
labour against the backdrop of the 21st Century Art
World. In it, the female footsoldiers of the art
economy are at the ready to promote, speak for and
elaborate on the meanings of the various pieces they
stand beside in art fair booths, performing superficial
tasks like dusting and polishing. The text, Évasionista
est arrivée She is ambience She is art She is furniture
She is architecture … cosmetics, speaks the breathless
hype of fashion. The mock-cyrillic script mimics Soviet
posters, heralding women workers in the feminised
and precarious labour market of the neo-liberal art
world.
Jones and Thompson are engaged in a long-standing collaboration that erupts every now and
again for an altered re-iteration and re-thinking looking at Neo-liberalism, Art, Feminism,
Showing Off, Distinction, Being HOT, Glamour, Luxury, and always bearing in mind that we look
really HOT when we THINK .
The poster anticipates the publication of C21st Recent History: the collaborations and collected
works of Alison Jones and Milly Thompson 2010-2015 , which will be launched at Filet Project
Space round the corner at 103 Murray Grove on Valentine’s Day 2016.
Find the bus stop at EC1V 9FR, on the west side of Old Street roundabout, outside the Great
Wall Chinese restaurant
