Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Hard Labor of the Live: April 15

Rebecca Schneider: The Hard Labor of the Live
Friday, April 15, 6:30pm
Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square

If a service economy thrives on the production of affect and the “immaterial labor” associated with the post-industrial condition, in what ways does performance-based work challenge or uphold that condition? Schneider brings this question to recent work in major art museums, such as Tino Sehgal’s Kiss and Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, beside work in theatre such as the Wooster Group’s Poor Theater.