Various Artists
Where is my education?
2023
Where is my education?
VA.LIBSUF (ki.Pearl)
2022-2023,
dictionary
33 € VAT included
Where Is My Education? is a performance work maintained daily in bed, between 4 and 8 am, and involving sweatshop-like labor. The creation process begins with Tatar translation of the English sentence Where is my education? Tatar is a Crimean language that Various Artists has not mastered. Instead, they blindly create new poetic works by Googletranslating the Tatar phrase into each of the 130+ languages Google offers, from Zulu to Afrikaans.
Various Artists repeats the process a hundred times to create as many eroded versions as possible of the original sentence to (re)generate multiple meanings. Where Is My Education? explores exhaustion—that of the artists exploiting themselves and that of the viewers overloaded with content. It is presented in two different ways in the exhibition: as cuttings covering the windows and as a small pocket dictionary presented in the office space and available for purchase.
