Our Political Work

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Hey everybody,

We put a new piece on the tubes. Check it out.

http://mtaa.net/art/opw/

A 2008 commission of LX 2.0, a project of Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea.
http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/ and curated by Luis Silva.

In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
— George Orwell

Continuing a series of computer-driven self-portraits, MTAA’s Our Political Work presents the artists in a never-ending state of screaming, yelling, waiting and sometimes laughing. Using 141 filmed moments, custom software randomly selects and joins video clips into a seemingly endless array of undignified action. Begun in 2007 and completed in 2008, Our Political Work creates an open-ended depiction of political discourse as Beckett-like action.