productivity/efficiency

To have no time, to tirelessly do more at once, to become increasingly flexible, to constantly change goals, plans, preferences – and to earn less and less. All this characterises neoliberal work and life.’

powerful position of resistance against societal norms, that there are more meaningful, gratifying ways of interacting with the world besides aggressively consuming and producing through these superficial modes and channels.

intends to cultivate more space and time for slower experiences and deeper reactions to artworks and in turn begins to suggest alternative modes of being, thinking and negotiating the world, and for consuming culture. By offering this constellation of slowed experiences where visitors are required to invest time performing and navigating the... See more

We're bad at creativity in our culture because we're obsessed with productivity. Creativity is slow and curious. Productivity considers every experiment and exploration like losing your way.

This efficiency shame runs deep in our culture. We celebrate the tortured artist, the writer bleeding over their manuscript, the creative genius wrestling with inadequate tools. But why? What moral value is there in making things harder than they need to be? When did we decide that the struggle was the point, rather than the connection we create... See more