In My Hands, Every Day In My Sight, Every Day
Kajsa Dahlberg a Jirka Skála
Technology meant to simplify and improve activities of our day to day lives suddenly is feeding back into our process of decision-making, not only affecting labour but turning even leisure into a profitable activity. Evolving in between disparate visions, one that saw optimisation of labour as a way to liberate the worker, free up time, increase salaries and therefore flatten hierarchies, decentralise control and possibly even help harmonise people; and on the other hand, one that sees the increased omnipotence of technology as the ultimate tool to further oppress and exploit the masses, and increase power, total surveillance and the wealth of the ruling class. If the latter scenario currently seems significantly closer to our reality – then is there a way to move towards the first? Kajsa Dahlberg (b. 1973, Göteborg, Sweden) and Jiří Skála (born 1976, Sušice, ČSSR), look at the contemporary modes of production and labour, their systematisation, distribution channels and how technology feeds back.
Kajsa Dahlberg, Reach, Grasp, Move, Position, Apply Force, 2015