Videoinstallation for 'OfficeHours', 2000

a group show at Wickham Business House,Whitechapel, London

Curated by Leire Vergara and Ken Kondo

An interactive video installation where the viewer can chose among the videos shown below and see it on a TV:

 

• How to Organize Your Way to Increased Productivity

• Why Motivation and Positive Thinking Works

• Management Begins With Creative Thinking

• The Seven Steps of the Planning Process

• How to Build a Creative Atmosphere

• How to Build a Winning Self Image

• How to Build a Winning Attitude

• How to Motivate for Results

• How to Keep Winners

• How to Find Winners

 

All videos are American business education videos and are approximately 20 minutes long.

 

Education is a great part of the business environment, to get a job and to develop yourself to create a prosperous career. To have been on specific courses and be chosen to have a paid education by your company is prestigious. It improves your C.V. and make you an attractive asset for the present of future company!

 

In transgressing the traditional role of the artist to criticise (e.g. business) I put forward some of the tools used by business people to improve their skills. What are these tools and what can the art world use them for?