[Nettime-bold] Exhibition: WHITE COLLAR (Berlin)

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

From: "David Hatcher" <david@sub-rosa.de>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:36 PM
Subject: Ausstellung/Exhibition: WHITE COLLAR

WHITE COLLAR

Dietmar Fleischer, Sean Gallagher, David Hatcher, Geka Heinke, Sofia Hulten,
Andreas Koch, Wolf von Kries, Bewegung Nurr, Chloe Smolarski, Heidi Specker,
Vassiliea Stylianidou, Gernot Wieland, Carla Åhlander

Preview: Thursday, September 27th, 7pm
28 September - 28 October 2001

Charlottenstraße 79/80, Corner Zimmerstr. (Entrance Zimmerstr.)
10117 Berlin-Mitte

White Collar presents an array of aesthetic positions touching on aspects of
the white collar state of mind, with artists drawing on elements of its
interior and exterior environments and design, social rituals, economic
preoccupations and operational systems as they examine and subvert the
visual and formal languages of urban professionals by misapplying,
inverting, falsely representing, forensically capturing, inventing and
extrapolating from the detritus of the white collar world.

Coining the term 'white collar' in the early 1950s, the American sociologist
C. Wright Mills provided a trope for an emerging 20th century middle class
keeping its hands clean as it toiled behind desks in the banal working
environments of the industrialised world. In their bid for gradual ascension
up the corporate ladder, the white collar workforce constituted a rank, a
milieux, a kind of social orbit - but the socio-economic fruits of
conforming to the daily routines and regulated climates of the office
brought with them a disaffected and precarious psychological life. Half a
century later the white collar world is out of orbit - the faceless goals of
multinationalism, the collapse of the new economy, the euphemistic ambience
of the pink slip party and the persistent uncertainties of globalisation
conflate to leave today's cell-phone-toting generation pondering the
feasibility of a sure footing on the slippery slopes of the white collar
pyramid.

The exhibition foregrounds the ambivalence of contemporary artists as they
respond to the contemporary corporate values, systems, hierarchies and
aesthetics by which they are surrounded.

More info:
http://whitecollar.de




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