Work less, work all

We are the 99% on Fiverr.com

Work less, work all. We are the 99% on Fiverr.com is the project I made for my solo show at Link Cabinet. It mixes body art, a performative approach and a fairly blunt political and conceptual statement.

For the show I opened a gig on Fiverr, the platform where people sell their professional services for a few dollars, offering my own artworks for sale. I built those artworks by buying and reselling other people's gigs: I asked each Fiverr worker to use their body to show, sing, dance or recite a message I had chosen.

So it is a commissioned body art performance, where my procedure meets the actions the workers perform with their own bodies. On one side I exploit their bodies and their creativity to make my work. On the other I make them carry the language and the slogans of the labour movements, pushing the hard, peculiar working conditions of the digital era right to the front.

2015
Series of video and pictures
The artist is typing. Now and somewhere...