Dispositive Workshop, part 2

October 11 – November 23, 2003

Arbeitswelt, Annika Eriksson

As the second project in the series of Dispositive Wokshop, Kunstverein München presents Arbeitswelt (World of work), a video installation by Annika Eriksson (Malmö/Berlin). The installation is the culmination of a project where the artist has collaborated for half a year with the staff at the Munich branch of the reinsurance company Swiss Re. Annika Eriksson has asked the employees to present and arrange themselves in front ofher camera at a spot in the building they feel to have personal significance. The employees are then asked to speak about the place and about the issue of security in relation to their work as well as life in general. The architecture plays a special role. More than fifty people have volunteered to participate in the project. Each contribution is individual, and yet they indicate the variety of different tasks, positions, opinions that make up the corporative whole, and show it as a miniature society in transformation. At the Kunstverein München the project is presented as a video installation (two videos: 60 mins each, in a loop) where the staff presentations are shown alongside video recordings of the architecture (14 mins, in a loop). The video portraits will also be show in the canteen of Swiss Re.