WORKERS THAT CAN NOT BE PAID, REM UNER TO STAY R INSIDE BOXES
Kunst Werke. Berli n, Germany. September 2000
This work is an adaptation of those in Guatemala and New York, which was introduced for workers in cardboard boxes under different circumstances. In this case, six workers remained for four hours a day for six weeks, in these cases, must collect secretly paid for his condition political exiles. German law gives the exiled 80 marks per month (about $ 40) and forbids him to work under threat of political persecution back to their country of origin. The details of this work could not therefore be made public at the time. The exiles came from Chechnya.
TRAP
Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile. December 2007
TRAP was made to be provided exclusively by individuals affiliated in one way or another, the world of culture, which were called one by one settles into a long wooden walkway. At one point the road saw the guest in the middle of a theater with 186 Peruvian workers at him without saying a word. Unable to leave at that point, had to retrace their steps, but the hallway and did not lead to the starting point but the street where a policeman gave back the keys to his car and thanked him for his presence.
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184 PERUVIAN WORKERS
Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile. December 2007
were hired for 7,000 Chilean pesos (15 dollars) and a snack to 184 Peruvian workers to perform this series of photographs and for an action that took place in the same space.
Santiago Sierra (Madrid, 1966) graduated in Fine Arts from the University Complutense de Madrid. He has lived in Hamburg and lives since 1995 in Mexico, where he continued his studies in School of San Carlos de Autonomous University of Mexico.
Sierra's art, loaded with social and political demands from the beginning, attempt to show the absurdity of the established power relations and highlight the problems that entails for the population of capitalist economy. All interventions involve a brainstorming exercise where artistic production plays a strategic role. Sierra
works primarily photography, video and, above all, the performances. In the latter discipline performs actions in which citizen participation is rewarded monetarily or in kind to emphasize the effects of the capitalist economy on workers. Taking as its starting point the minimalism of the mid-60's, Sierra intends to show how space, body and human relations are dominated by market forces.
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