Intervention Prototype (Test I): Push the Button
Participatory Performance
Duration: 10 minutes
Duration: 10 minutes
This simulation in a capitalist industry explores the occurrence of alienation arising from the division of labor. Workers are required to perform repetitive tasks under the control and surveillance of a supervisor. This situation contrasts sharply with the human essence of freedom and creativity.
Previously, I enacted an experiment as a laborer in the clothing industry by performing the repetitive task of sewing many buttons to investigate my state of mind and the changes in my body without the creativity and power to make any decisions.
In the test intervention, the audience was asked to swap roles. I became the supervisor, and the audience members acted as laborers, performing separate, repetitive tasks for a few minutes under a time clock, unaware that the supervisor was observing them through camera surveillance.
