Michal Durda
The Art of Wage Labour
mixed media
Making art as a job on which an artist does existentially rely on. What will I do after school? How does real artistic practice look like? How do I even survive? Object in shape of muzzle that symbolizes oppression made of action body painting. Piece manipulates with a viewers and encourages them to sten inside the muzzle so they can see the painting however by doing so they put on the muzzle for themselves. The painting was created as a performance which took 40 hours aprox. 8 hours a day as a full-time working in a week. There I was left alone with just paint, coffee, a snack and urine, with which became an essential materials for the painting.