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Photo: Toni Mlakar
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Photo: Toni Mlakar
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Photo: Toni Mlakar
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Photo: Toni Mlakar
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Photo: Toni Mlakar
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Tempo Tempo
a double channel video
and a kinetic object, 2014
Tempo Tempo
consists of a double channel video and a kinetic object which form a
narrative about accelerating the production process and enhancing
work performance in order to increase competitiveness and improve
profits. The video contains archival footage of the research by Frank
Bunker Gilbreth (1868–1924), a pioneer of time and motion study. In
his research, Gilbreth developed
methods for searching for the most efficient way of carrying out a
specific task in order to
increase the efficiency of workers.
The archival footage is complemented with modern footage from a
factory making metal products. Here, the robotisation and automation
of the production process have become a reality, thereby rounding off
centuries-long endeavours to improve performance. Workers at the
plant reflect on what the robotisation of production brings and how
it has impacted the status of human labour. Their considerations are
complemented with statistical data allowing comparisons of work norms
and labour costs of a robot and a worker from the said plant.
The
title of the work is taken from the agit-prop play with the same
title performed in 1930 by a theatre group of German immigrant
workers called Prolet-Buehne in New York. The characters of the play
include a capitalist, a policeman and seven or ten workers. The text
of Tempo Tempo also
serves as an element linking the video in which an immigrant worker
in Slovenia is reading one part of the text which the kinetic
object/metronome reproduces through the sound modulation of a spark.
Sparks are used as a reference to Gilbreth’s research into the
optimal relationship of the worker’s effort to the volume of work
that the effort accomplishes. Mounting a source of light on a
worker’s hand, Gilbreth, who then employed time-lapse photography,
recorded the trail of light created by the movement of the worker’s
hand.
By combining
historical and contemporary materials, statistical data and private
statements, the visual and the acoustic, together with the artistic
and the research approach, Tempo Tempo
conveys in layers a complex narrative about the interrelationship of
technology, labour, subjectivity and the criticism of capitalist
production relations.
txt by Urška Jurman
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