How Capital Moves
I attended this exhibition in Limerick City Art Gallery- off site in City Hall
How Capital Moves was originally commissioned for the Łódź Biennale in Poland but since then has made its way to Limerick. This is a very mcuh motivated in that the Dell Computers company in Limerick closed its doors in recent years with the loss of 1,900 jobs in the locality.
'The company' as described in the exhibition moved its business to Poland and this is the basis for the Kennedy Brown piece.
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| Boarding passes Kennedy- Browne, Shannon- Lodz |
The exhibition displayed many elements including images of redundancy at a Dell call-centre in Oregon and boarding passes for flights from Shannon to Łódź. The main event was a video installation featuring six personalised monologues. These are based on real accounts in online forums but also with some artistic licence.
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| Video piece |
The speakers whom are all men are wearing pyjamas as the employees were requested to wear pyjamas to work in support of pyjamas day and they were fired on that day! The dialogue is actual conversations created by these employees on an online forum and is filmed in polish with english subtitles. It does however display an air of cynism and obvious artistic editing.
This exhibition explores the reality of the global and national economic crisis from corporate to personal points of view.
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