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selected tag: isolation

structural violence. architectural violence. We usually link isolation to invisibility, but these images suggest that isolation is an effect of managed segregation, that it is indeed visible but not taken seriously. Paid domestic workers around the world recognize the seriousness of isolation. They have been very effective at organizing themselves through unions and associations to assuage the solitude of working in individual homes.  (This text has been written collectively by the participants of Bilderkritik 1)

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the undesirables

Posted on November 3, 2011 by marc

name: Pinky & bunny
age: 9 & 10
profession: cats
location: the desert, U.s.a.
weekday: tuesday
reference: we are still working

Posted in other — tags: domestic animals, eldercare, invisibility, isolation, mobility — Leave a comment —

Front and Back view

Posted on December 28, 2011 by marc

name: Sabine
age: 26
profession: artist
location: amsterdam
weekday: tuesday
reference: Safe-room models

Posted in doors & windows — tags: (un)safe, architecture, fear, isolation — Leave a comment —

lidenesque

Posted on October 5, 2012 by marc

name: sebastien
age: 36
profession: civil servant
location: The hague
weekday: sunday
reference: in 8 years, I went to this place only once.

Posted in office — tags: invisibility, isolation, post-fordism — Leave a comment —

my kitchen window makes me sigh

Posted on March 4, 2012 by marc

name: raquel
age: 35
profession: photographer
location: Barcelona
weekday: monday
reference: My small kitchen is sweet

Posted in doors & windows, kitchen — tags: architecture, isolation — Leave a comment —

Action 3

Posted on November 2, 2011 by rogier

name: Flatten the Mountain
age: 26
profession: Artist collaborative
location: London / Glasgow
weekday: thursday
reference: crouch on floor and cover body except feet and ankles

Posted in livingroom — tags: action, domestic exercise, isolation — Leave a comment —

BREAKING WALLS

Posted on January 9, 2012 by marc

name: pilar
age: 51
profession: architect
location: castellón
weekday: sunday
reference: Finally, I have decided to open my kitchen, my prison. Using the hammer, I felt my freedom was beginning. 1993, Castellón, SPAIn.

Posted in doors & windows, kitchen, livingroom — tags: action, architecture, do-it-yourself, domestic labour, feminism, food, invisibility, isolation, self-representation — Leave a comment —

stunts

Posted on October 22, 2012 by marc

name: Christian
age: 29
profession: artist
location: London
weekday: 2009
reference: camp home: domestic exercise and rehearsal

Posted in livingroom — tags: domestic exercise, isolation — Leave a comment —

New work

Posted on February 11, 2012 by marc

name: Sarah
age: 23
profession: Student
location: Amsterdam
weekday: Friday
reference: My friend works for 2 days at the office and 3 days at home. Often when he works at home he sits slumped on the couch, and sometimes he only wears his bathrobe. They call this “new work”.

Posted in livingroom — tags: homework, invisibility, isolation, post-fordism, technology — Leave a comment —

Action 4

Posted on November 2, 2011 by rogier

name: Flatten the Mountain
age: 26
profession: Artist collaborative
location: London / Glasgow
weekday: friday
reference: sit on floor and expose lower leg

Posted in livingroom — tags: action, domestic exercise, isolation — Leave a comment —

jungle

Posted on December 28, 2011 by marc

name: Sébastien
age: 36
profession: civil servant
location: The hague
weekday: monday
reference: An underpopulated building: the only content of this room is a fax, of that room, a dart game. the people working there seem to abhor its emptiness.

Posted in office — tags: isolation, plants, post-fordism, precarity, self-representation — Leave a comment —

alone in the kitchen

Posted on January 9, 2012 by marc

name: pilar
age: 51
profession: architect
location: castellón
weekday: saturday
reference: 1995, Castellón, SPAIN. After lunch, I hate staying alone in my dark little kitchen, making coffee and doing the washing up. Everybody is laughing in the dining room. 3 metres corridor, my unhappiness.

Posted in kitchen, livingroom — tags: architecture, family, feminism, food, isolation — Leave a comment —

Action 2

Posted on November 2, 2011 by rogier

name: Flatten the Mountain
age: 26
profession: Artist collaborative
location: London / Glasgow
weekday: wednesday
reference: hold towel up to head and obscure face

Posted in livingroom — tags: action, domestic exercise, domestic tools, isolation — Leave a comment —

model for Safe-room / garage

Posted on December 28, 2011 by marc

name: Sabine
age: 26
profession: artist
location: amsterdam
weekday: wednesday
reference: for the time I will own a garage

Posted in garage — tags: architecture, fear, isolation — Leave a comment —

Action 1

Posted on November 2, 2011 by rogier

name: Flatten the Mountain
age: 26
profession: Artist collaborative
location: London / Glasgow
weekday: tuesday
reference: place towel over head and pose

Posted in bathroom — tags: action, domestic exercise, domestic tools, isolation — Leave a comment —

working the streets

Posted on January 4, 2012 by marc

name: sohrab
age: 29
profession: artist
location: london
weekday: monday
reference: the women in Kabul sell magazines in the street to make a bit of extra money for their household. selling (these) magazines is regarded just slightly more worthy than begging or prostitution.

Posted in street — tags: fashion, gendered, invisibility, isolation, media, precarity, religion — Leave a comment —

olympic glimpse

Posted on November 11, 2012 by marc

name: Realizza
age: 25
profession: domestic worker / visual artist
location: london
day: wednesday
reference: in the middle of the city, there was the glimpse of the olympic ring.

Posted in doors & windows — tags: childcare, domestic labour, isolation — Leave a comment —

WASHING PLACE

Posted on January 9, 2012 by marc

name: pilar
age: 51
profession: architect
location: castellón
weekday: tuesday
reference: Vicentica is 82 years old. Her son has bought her a washing machine, but she still prefers to use the washing place in the street. She needs a domestic excuse to occupy the public space. 1996, Almenara, SPAIN.

Posted in laundry — tags: collectivity, feminism, gendered, isolation, water — Leave a comment —

number 6

Posted on December 28, 2011 by marc


name: Sabine
age: 26
profession: artist
location: amsterdam
weekday: sunday
reference: recent image of the house where i grew up

Posted in doors & windows — tags: (un)safe, fear, isolation — Leave a comment —

Home Office

Posted on November 2, 2011 by rogier

name: stas
age: 30
profession: graphic designer
location: prague
weekday: monday
reference: Are there real work at home jobs? Yes there are some, but, they are not nearly as plentiful as you would think considering the amount of interest there is in working from home.

Posted in office — tags: homework, isolation, post-fordism — Leave a comment —

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→ werker 3 is a project initiated by marc roig blesa & rogier delfos within the grand domestic revolution goes on, a long term living research and exhibition organized by casco, office for art, design and theory in utrecht. Bilderkritik is financially supported by stimuleringsfonds creatieve industrie.


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