OVERTIME | ALEX VILLAR

While the notion of overtime in the work context is generally conceived as additional workload, excess-of-work in this piece is represented as the lethargy the body manifests when overworked. Rather than working and behaving properly, slacking and sleeping are the championed activities of this project. They represent unproductive instances of the working body. These gestures are conflated to ambiguous spatial situations in the physical configuration of the office space; for example, the space underneath the desk or the space in between meeting tables. As a group, these actions propose a flexibilization of an otherwise rigid code of control.

Overtime, 4 minutes, silent, video, 2004 | 30 sec preview

File Cabinet, photograph, variable dimensions, 2004
Door, photograph, variable dimensions, 2004
Table, photograph, variable dimensions, 2004

As an installation, the piece is sited in the midst of a large room as an oversized office cubicle housing a life size projection. The structure is built from the same type of provisional wall materials used in corporate environments. The viewer is invited into the cubicle but first needs to walk through the corridor in which the space around it is transformed. Overtime positions the viewer in a spatial situation similar to the office areas depicted in the video, establishing a relative contiguity between virtual and actual space.

Overtime, installation project for Oslo Kunstforening, 260 x 480 x 190 cm, 2008 | cad | video

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