Participants of the workshop “Checking/Browsing”, Digital format Festival Bauhaus Study Rooms. Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, DE 2020
Images from the interactive digital text Browsing by Aída Herrera Peña. “Checking/Browsing“, DE 2020.

Checking/
/Browsing

by Aída Herrera Peña and Vivien Tauchmann (2020) 2022

‘Checking & Browsing’ invited participants to reflect critically on the relationship between consumers & production workers, the ‘here’ & ‘there’, the individual & the collective. The starting point was two similar gestures of opposite origins: browsing on one’s smartphone and the monotony of workers on the assembly line whose daily task is to check the functionality of smartphone screens. Two different but parallel exercises revealed in this collective experience not only a critical reflection of one’s own behaviour, but also the interrelation with the people and their work that is behind the objects surrounding us. 


Photo by the team of Diss/assembly of Performative Things, Aída Herrera Peña and Vivien Tauchmann performing “Checking/Browsing“, Kunstraum Vika e.V, DE 2022.

By designing an embodied experience that invited the audience to delve into the act of reading, Aída created an interactive digital text “Browsing” intertwined with Vivien’s work and research about the working conditions at assembly lines of smartphones in Asia.

- ACCESS TO THE TEXT ‘BROWSING’ HERE 

Photo by the team of Diss/assembly of Performative Things, on-site Workshop Checking/Browsing’. Kunstraum Vika e.V, DE 2022


Photo by the team of Diss/assembly of Performative Things, Participants at the on-site workshop “Checking/Browsing“, Kunstraum Vika e.V, DE 2022.


Photo by the team of Diss/assembly of Performative Things, Participants at the on-site workshop “Checking/Browsing“, Kunstraum Vika e.V, DE 2022.

 Related links
1. Dis/Assembly of Performative Things 2022

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