2022
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“The most fundamental problem of technology is its role in the reproduction of hierarchies and injustices foisted upon most of us by business owners, bosses and governments. In other words the problem with technology is its role in capitalism: to compel us to work more. […] (Working) class struggle will necessarily target the machines of the day.” (pág. 7, Breaking things at work, Gavin Mueller. Verso, 2021)
Filmed secretly against the factory’s rules, a worker shows us her day-to-day life operating the same almost obsolete machine at her workstation inside a multinational factory. Work2eat2work4life.mp4 explores the performative component of the work, highlighting, above all, the choreography of the hands and the constant repetition of the body's robotic movements and actions, culminating in saturation, breaks, error and exhaustion.
