Attention Exercise: The World of Work, three digital prints, each 84.1 cm x 59.4 cm, 2022
The work traces and schematizes the movement of the eyes of the respective three riders for 10 seconds out of their work activities recorded in ‘Attention Exercise: Our Collective Eyes,’ with the texts that list descriptive systems of work and labor - 'Work Accident', 'Work Value', and 'Work Emotion.' It allows us to contemplate the present world of work and labor that encroaches our attention and simultaneously suggests that a new organization is possible by revealing the subject’s power to act in itself.
10 Seconds' Attention: Work Accident
Infection – Occupational Disease – Overexertion – Transportation Incidents – Rupture – Excessive Motions – Suffocations – Musculoskeletal Disorders – Being Stabbed – Exposure to Harmful Substances – Psychological Trauma – Submersion – Exposure to Noise – Awkward Postures – Fires – Exposure to Abnormal Pressure – Collapse – Exposure to Abnormal Temperature – Explosions – Contact – Entanglement – Slips – Overturned – Violence – Pressure – Trips – Struck By – Drownings – Repetitive Motions – Cuts – Caught In – Crushed – Electric Shocks – Amputations – Forceful Exertions – Vibration – Bumping – Stress – Depletion of Oxygen – Exposure to Radiation – Falls – Exposure to Hazardous Substances – Bodily Reactions
10 Seconds' Attention: Work Value
Mental Challenge – Responsibility – Authority – Supervision—Human Relations – Advancement – Independence – Physical Prowess – Income – Social Interaction – Social Status – Activity – Lifestyle – Moral Value – Co-workers – Risk – Personal Development – Altruism – Security - Achievement – Aesthetics – Recognition – Company Policies and Practices – Ability Utilization – Working Condition – Supervision—Technical – Cultural Identity
10 Seconds' Attention: Work Emotion
Absence of Self – Exhausted Energy – Lethargy – Self-sufficiency – Boredom – Reverie – Grief – Despair – Duality – Constraint – Ethical Satisfaction – Lamentation – Rage – Tiredness – Hypnosis – Oblivion – Abandonment – Impatience – Nervousness – Devotion – Pride – Resignation – Aroused State – Comfort – Fatigue – Tension – Sense of Unity – Secret Hope – Misery – Indifference – Deviation – Solidarity – Marginality
-‘Work Accident’ reference: Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) Guide G-8-2006, G-83-2016 / Ministry of Employment and Labor, Analysis of Industrial Accidents Status (2021)
-‘Work Value’ reference: The study of work values measurement (Values Scale: VS, Work Value Inventory: WVI, Minnesota Importance Questionnaire: MIQ)
-‘Work Emotion’ reference: Jacques Ranciere, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (Temple University Press, 1989) / Ahram Jeong, the script of ‘Performance Minimum: Interview’ (2020)