Day Job

In this split-screen video installation, we present an entire day in our respective lives -- during which we are pretty much always working, or engaging with labor -- and collapse that day into a monolithic 8-hour running time that coincides with the workday that laborers once fought and died for. The 8-hour running time implies a laborious commitment from the viewer but also deliberately undermines the expectation to take in “the whole thing.” It's a time-based work that transcends the boundaries of time, the way our labor now transcends boundaries under the “empire” of late capitalism.