Cecilia Ceccherini

postworkhabitat

postworkhabitat * tools for imaginative practices * since 2017

postworkhabitat is a collective exploration of post-work scenarios through a series of performances, anti-power naps, exhibitions and presentations developed in collaboration with Alberto Valz Gris.

The project has been shown through different formats: as an installation and performance at Macao (Milan, 2017-2018) and as an installation in the collective exhibition S.O.S. Cotton Candy, curated by Clara Madaro and Katiuscia Pompili (Torino, 2018).

“[...] è evidente che l’uomo è caduto, con il lavoro, sotto una sorta di maledizione, dallo stato di eterno ozio in cui prima si sarebbe trovato. Forse nella comunità umana questo stato è realmente esistito, e forse la leggenda della creazione del Paradiso – e dell’uomo da lì scacciato – è una rappresentazione appannata di una realtà passata; a meno che non si tratti di una realtà futura che l’uomo raggiungerà attraverso la maledizione del lavoro. [...] Quest’epoca di felicità nella quale tutte le fabbriche e tutte le imprese umane funzioneranno di per se stesse”.

—K.S. Malevič, L’inattività come verità effettiva dell'uomo, 1921

During the first event, #1 Findings from a future time, the elements included in the installation are aimed at stimulating a collective situation where people can share knowledge, opinions, fears, perplexities or excitements around the debate on the future of work, on the utopian or distopian possibility of its disappearance driven by rising automation. Download here the ready to be print booklets of postworkhabitat selected texts presented during the event #1 Findings from a future time.

In the second event, #2 Emergency Landing Instructions, the audience is invited to participate in a sharing rest performance, a call to stimulate a collective reflection where still bodies communicate while resting.

The events at Macao have been developed with the support and collaboration of Caffè Letterario Macao and Communion.

postworkhabitat #2 - Emergency Landing Instructions, performance, Macao, Milano, 2018
Video: Nikola Lorenzin, Sound: Gigo8931

postworkhabitat #2 - Emergency Landing Instructions, performance, Macao, Milano, 2018
Photo: Nikola Lorenzin

postworkhabitat #2 - Emergency Landing Instructions, flyer, Macao, Milano, 2018

postworkhabitat #2 - Emergency Landing Instructions, collage, Macao, Milano, 2018

postworkhabitat #1 - Findings from a future time, Installation view @ Macao, Milano, 2017