Your office. Five days a week or more, at 9am or before, you take off your coat and shrug off the world outside, to be productive, to add value, to climb the ladder, to win the bread.
Sometimes though, you look up from your keyboard and see your office in all its ordinary absurdity. Your colleagues sitting quietly at buzzing machines, surrounded by neutral grey surfaces washed in fluorescent light, tapping and clicking, shuffling paper, speaking an alien language of buzzwords and acronyms. Sometimes you idly wonder what it would take for this unlikely balloon to puncture.
Wait, did someone just sneeze? Is it a killer disease? Is this door normally locked? Why does the floor map look like a battle plan, anyway? Are the temps plotting a riot? Hey! Who spiked your coffee? Where's the fire warden's hat? What colour is your parachute? Does it matter, if you can't open the window?
Tell us how you imagine your workplace erupting. You can be grandiose, apocalyptic or microscopic. We'll do our best to simulate it in our controlled office environment, and then get a photographer to capture the fallout.
Send us your daydreams.
What is this? It's White Collar Undone,
an art project that's part of the
2006 Next Wave Festival.
We're hoping you'll hit the Reply button and give us some of
your ideas. One sentence or an essay, we're happy. This is as anonymous as you
want it to be -- you can use a pseudonym if you like, and we won't know
your email address unless you tell us. (But if you have a question,
we do need you to tell us — otherwise we can't give you an answer.)
Exhibition Venue: The Centre For Contemporary Photography. 404 George St Fitzroy.
Dates: 17th March - 6th May
Opening Night: 16th March, 6 - 8pm
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm
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