I am delighted to share my new solo exhibition "Ack! Knowledge! Work!" at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, curated by Jesse Colin Jackson at the University of California, Irvine.
In the exhibition Katherine Behar: Ack! Knowledge! Work! interactive installations, video works, and sculptures address how digital technologies of automation are reforming the future of labor. With Ack! Knowledge! Work! Behar invites us to "acknowledge" crucial labor that automation makes invisible and to question the supposed intelligence of "knowledge work" as artificial intelligence encroaches on traditionally white-collar jobs. Simultaneously, the exhibition gives a nod to the conflicted "Ack! so many of us feel about work and automation: we understand that automation could lead to unemployment, but even so we wish tedious work could be automated away.
Among other works, the exhibition includes three premieres: the final iteration of "Anonymous Autonomous," an interactive installation with robotic office chairs, the first iteration of "We Grasp at Straws (Take One)," a new experimental screendance film installation that's part of a new body of work involving robotics and basketry, and "Indispensable," an interactive installation about care work and service work that involves a talking hand sanitizer dispenser.
Katherine Behar: Ack! Knowledge! Work!
On View: February 3–April 20, 2024
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6 p.m.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 3, 2–5 p.m.
Beall Center for Art + Technology
712 Arts Plaza
Irvine, CA 92697
949-824-6206
beallcenter@uci.edu
Discounted Advance Pre-Paid Parking Permits
More info: https://www.arts.uci.edu/event/katherine-behar-ack-knowledge-work
https://beallcenter.uci.edu/exhibitions/katherine-behar-ack-knowledge-work