Days of Labour, Nights of Leisure

How could we envision a break in the endless succession of work and leisure that constitutes our everyday lives? And can we escape the “atrophy of experience” induced by modernity, as Walter Benjamin suggested? Perhaps contemporary artistic practice could provide an antidote to our impoverished experience, by disrupting the flow of work/leisure and the established regimes of visibility.

Simultaneously a space of authenticity and inauthenticity, everyday life incorporates potentiality and play, which art can help flesh out from this double dimension of the ordinary.