Maja Bajević: All the World's Futures

56th Venice Biennale

Arsenale, Venice, Italy

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Maja Bajević Arts, Crafts and Facts, 2015 Single channel video, 22:18 min. color, sound Libretto by Maja Bajevic, Anja Bogojevic and Tijana Vignyevic Ed. of 5 (+ 2 AP)
Maja Bajević
Arts, Crafts and Facts, 2015
Single channel video, 22:18 min. color, sound
Libretto by Maja Bajevic, Anja Bogojevic and Tijana Vignyevic
Ed. of 5 (+ 2 AP)
Maja Bajevic: "Arts, Crafts and Facts" responds to the denigration of human labor caused by the financialization of the global economy. To compose the libretto of "Arts, Crafts and Facts", Bajevic investigated the repercussions of world price fluctuations of raw materials such as coffee and cacao on all levels of the economy, from shop prices to stock prices, and from the income of home owners to that of store owners. 
 
Recited against the background of an early industrial textile factory founded in the socialist context of former Yugoslavia, the libretto charts the effects of neoliberal speculation on the concrete living conditions of the global working class.
 

Curator: Okwui Enwezor

 
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