(DE)WORK

<p>DE(WORK) is an installation on the Degrowth of Work. Technological development and globalisation have created an apparent decoupling of economic growth from material resource extraction. This has only been made possible by the increased abstraction of labour, and the spatial distance between sites of production and consumption. The installation, (DE)WORK, exposes the interdependencies between processes of material extraction, productive labour, and growth within the globalised economy. It presents raw data on economic and financial, environmental, and political metrics driving complex processes of deforestation as an example of material extraction – in an abstract and continuous flow, manicured live by an algorithm. The publication connects the metrics, presented by the installation, to labour through reflections on the interconnectedness between material resource extraction and their effect on material resource extraction. As an ensemble of essays, the publication responds to issues that arise within and in-between our production and economic systems.</p>