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ERR
2012














I contact factories across the globe, commissioning their workers to insert errors into the products they ordinarily manufacture, rendering them dysfunctional. The workers are given unconditional authorship over the errors they chose to make.

This project was triggered by a report about the Apple factory in Shenzhen, China. According to the report, one worker claimed ‘sometimes he would deliberately drop something on the ground so he could have a few seconds of rest while picking it up.’
This work extends his gesture, examining the potential of deliberate errors to offer a moment of freedom within the logic of global production.





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Press
Sculpture
Digital correspondence
Photography
Industrial furniture
HD video
Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
National Technical Library (Prague)
221a (Vancouver)
Reverse Space (NYC)
Cypriana Majernika (Bratislava)
Design Biennal (Budapest)
Z33 (Hasselt)
Saatchi New Sensations (London)
Nassauischer Kunstverein (Wiesbaden)
CCCA (Manchester)
Third Text
Artforum
Ibraaz
Manifesto Magazine
TimeOut
Guardian
The Independent
Frankfurter Allgemeine Feuilleton
Aesthetica Magazine
Art:Review
Another Magazine
The Financial Times
Port Magazine
Creative Review
Icon magazine




































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