A bunch of years ago when I first read this manifesto my heart - and brain - had a gasp. 10 statements each one so true and functional... and at the same time difficult to follow. If only you could make yours at least 6 out of 10 you are on the right truck..
I've made this animation truly inspired by the evergreen content of them, this showld be the modus operandi for each one of us: designers, artists, housewives, mechanics, managers, schoolchildren...
Unlike the fontype used by the 2 artists on the mural installed on a building - I've preferred to use a naive one as the content is so deep and engaging.
..and now which is the most difficult point to follow? N..1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6........ ?
Wish you a good thinking :)
"How to Work Better’s ten-point list of simple statements suggests that “working better” is as much about an approach to everyday life as it is about productivity. The artists originally appropriated the text from a sign found on a bulletin board in a ceramic factory in Thailand nearly three decades ago. Since then, the piece has taken different forms, from postcard to screen print to book cover. Most famously, the artists’ first installed it as a mural on an office building in Zurich in 1991."
About the Exhibition
How to Work Better is a readymade artwork by Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) that has been hand-painted on a building on Houston Street at the corner of Mott Street in Lower Manhattan. It is also the title of the artist’s concurrent retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Since 1979, the Swiss artist duo have created an extraordinary breadth of work, often ignoring the traditional distinctions between high and low art. With a sincere curiosity about human nature and wonder in the everyday, they have embraced new possibilities for encounters with art, both inside and outside the gallery.
25 years later, the simple yet clichéd statements used to motivate workers in a faraway factory have become a widely circulated ethos with copies found taped to the walls and desks of many artists and curators who have adopted the rules as a guide for how to work in the studio, the institution, and as collaborators. On Houston and Mott, at the center of the city that never sleeps, How to Work Better resonates in new ways. In our digital era, where the commercial landscape is ever present and the very nature of work is being redefined, the ten pithy statements are almost humorously direct. Are these merely platitudes or enduring rules to live by? How might this workplace manifesto apply to our daily lives? How to Work Better invites us to stop and think again about just how and why it is that we do what we do.
This exhibition is curated by Public Art Fund Curator Andria Hickey.
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