Podium Hausmanns gate 34, 0182 Oslo

"Useful Work versus Useless Toil" (UWUT/working title) is a group exhibition co-produced with the independent exhibition space ENCOOORE in Biarritz, curated by Una Mathiesen Gjerde. Deriving from William Morris' eponymous essay and his efforts to improve artists and artisans, but also the general conditions of the working class, UWUT will address questions related to work and labour in Europe. As Morris experienced with the industrial revolution, we now find ourselves in a new era of rapid technological development. UWUT intends to examine work in the broadest sense – both artistically, socially and economically. Central to the project is to create a context that invites the public to reflect on their own relationship to work, and by extension the neoliberal consumption of the labor market that we are experiencing in our time - where inequalities are growing at a gallop, parallel to a technological development that plausibly will change how we understand the notions of work and labour.

Podium is supported by Arts Council Norway / Kulturradet.