Attention Exercise: The World of Work II
2024
Six digital prints, each 59.1x42cm
Attention Exercise: The World of Work II is a diagrammatic map that traces the eye movements of meal kit workers during their work activities, as recorded in Attention Exercise: Our Collective Eyes II. Each point of gaze is accompanied by the words describing the world of work and labor organized into three categories: “work accident,” “work emotion,” and “work value.” The piece captures the three-second gaze constellations that reflect repetitive patterns of micro-work, mapping, articulating, and conceptualizing the current organization of the world of work and labor that directs our attention.
Work Accident reference:
-Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Occupational Accidents Classification Manual, KOSHA CODE G-8-2006, Ulsan: KOSHA, 2006.
-Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Occupational Accidents Classification Manual, KOSHA GUIDE G-83-2016, Ulsan: Kosha, 2016.
-Ministry of Employment and Labor, Annual Report for Analysis of Accident and Work-related Disease in 2020, Publication No. 11-1490000-000022-10, Sejong: MOEL, 2021.
Work Emotion reference:
-Jacques Ranciere, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France, trans. June Beom Ahn (Seoul: Munhakdongne Publishing, 2021).
-Ahram Jeong, Ahram Jeong Solo Exhibition: Performance Minimum (Seoul, 2020). Exhibition catalogue.
Work Value reference:
-The study of work values measurement: Values Scale (VS), Work Values Inventory (WVI), Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ)