OPW? POW!

OPW? POW!

June 3rd, 2016 -
July 21st, 2016

An exhibition by Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas

Opening Reception:
June 3rd from 7 - 10pm

‘Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little.’

-Mark Twain

There is no alternative
-Margaret Thatcher

Today’s Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the space he invades
He gets by on you
-Rush

‘Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little.’
-Mark Twain

Even Amazon can’t automate everything. One of my favorite strategies for dealing with that fact is the mobilization of Other People’s Work (OPW). In many cases, the best way to scale an unavoidable residue of manual labor is to enable and motivate other people to do it.
-John Rossman

Work comes to dress itself in the clothes of the artist or of the university. The values of creativity only become capable of being exploited by an intelligent capitalism to the extent that they were promoted as a value, first experimentally and then as a norm of living.
-Yann Moulier-Boutang

The time apparently freed by technology is in fact transformed into cyber time, a time of mental processing absorbed into the infinite production processes of cyber space.
-Franco "Bifo" Berardi

And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.
-Mark Twain