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No Time to Lose. A search for work / life balance
12 June 2008
A search for work / life balance / curated by Milena Placentile
13 June - 26 July. Opening night Thursday 12 June, 6 - 8pm
Are you one of the many people spending too much time at work? Eating lunch at your desk? Addicted to your Blackberry and not able to switch it off, even on holiday? Peacock Visual Arts' new exhibition No Time to Lose is about all of this, and more.
Blog
Follow the show behind the scenes on Milena's blog! notimetolose.wordpress.com
Saki Satom, Desk project, video installation 2005, photo by Michael Franke
No Time to Lose responds to the decline of personal time experienced in large parts of the world due to increased hours spent working. The negative effects of overwork are widespread, including health and relationship problems, accidents caused by cutting corners or fatigue, and social and political disengagement, yet many of us feel at a loss over what to do. No Time to Lose draws attention to the unsustainability of social and economic systems that do not afford people sufficient time outside of work.
The show features multimedia artworks by seven international artists, both in and outside the gallery.
EVENTS
Friday, 13 June, Lunchtime discussion at Peacock Visual Arts, 12:30 – 1:30pm with curator Milena Placentile and artists Cathy Busby, Anja Hertenberger & Anja Steidinger, Saki Satom, and Abigail Schoneboom.
Friday, 20 June, CyberSpaceLand performances by Amy Alexander. Locations: The Green, 5pm / Schoolhill, 6pm / Beach Boulevard 7pm
Tuesday, 8 July, cineclub at Peacock Visual Arts, 7pm Four short videos (total running time: just over one hour). * Work [Kika Thorne, 1999] * The Measure of Success [Coleen Finlayson & Cherie Moses, 1987] * A Cure for Being Ordinary [Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, 2005] * Dreams of the Night Cleaners [Leila Sujir, 1996]
