Why Work?/!AmnistÌa!/Civic Sarah Tripp Ultra-red Søren Andreasen   December 6. 2002 - January 17. 2003 Opening December 5. from 7pm - 11pm   click here for more images   The exhibition "Why Work?/¡AmnistÌa!/Civic" consists of three works, each of which presents a unique position within the political terrain formed by the relation of existential and productive practices in social space. Based upon interactions with actual and structural conditions of living and working, the works represent voices of skepticism, critique, and antithesis; they seek to set-adrift/negate structures of social control. Together, the works establish a three-part-discussion on how existential and productive practices are articulated and authorized in social space. Why Work? is a video by Scottish artist Sarah Tripp. "Why Work?" exposes the absurd and comical reality of authoritarian structures. In the video, a privileged teenage girl confronts a variety of job agents and consultants. The video is a semi-documentary movie that distracts the narratives of authority from a skeptical common sense position of everyday life. Artist's homepage ¡AmnistÌa! is an EP by the Los Angeles-based collaboration Ultra-red. The sound material on the "¡Amnistia!" EP is composed from recordings made at the May Day 2000 rally in New York. This rally concerned the situation of undocumented immigrant workers. "¡Amnistia!" is a critical action that combines political reality, electronica, and collaborative work. Civic is a pamphlet by Danish artist Søren Andreasen. The "Civic" text converts elements from cybernetics, neurology, and economy into a synthetic and abstract narrative. The text is, simultaneously, a negation of super-structural rationality and a sci-fi anti-narrative concerning the discursive spectacle of Civilization.   The exhibition is organised by Søren Andreasen     S P A R W A S S E R H Q OFFENSIVE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART AND COMMUNICATION T O R S T R A S S E 1 6 1 , 1 0 1 1 5 B E R L I N M I T T E Open hours: Wed-Fri 4 -7 PM, Sat 2 - 6 PM contact: mail@sparwasserhq.de or telephone +49 30 21803001 http://www.sparwasserhq.de