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"In my artwork I explore the elusive web of power and influence through which companies and institutions shape the lives of their employees in the modern digital age.

 

The Artistic Agency of the Paperwork Executive (TAAPE) performance will interrogate the ideas of authority and bureaucracy.  

 

By putting on a high visibility vest, the wearer is invested with authority:  they are acting on behalf of some unseen, official agency. But what happens when the behaviour of those holding power is not as the public expects?

 

“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”

Franz Kafka, The Trial

 

Will odd behaviour be noticed?  Will excessive bureaucracy be challenged?  Will the public find answering a questionnaire humorous, annoying or just plain strange?"

 

-Katherine Dwyer

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