Michel Wagenschütz

Gute Arbeit, gute Nacht, 3-channel video installation, exhibition view at Heit Gallery, 2021

Gute Arbeit, gute Nacht, HD-Video, Excerpt

In Gute Arbeit, gute Nacht [Good Work, good Night] (2021), we witness a cell phone conversation between a post-studio artist and a job center employee in which the artist struggles to explain and justify the expenses of her practice. The same script is performed in various contexts: waking in a hotel room, shopping for a suit in a fast fashion shop, sitting in a rental car. The director’s voice occasionally intervenes, encouraging the actor and blurring the boundary between the cinematic scene and the real conditions of its production.

with Romina Küper

2nd Camera Paul Niedermayer

Musik Enver Hadzijaj

Color Grading Caio Amado Soares

Soundmixing Alexander Bornschein

Bitte keine Originale einreichen (Kopien für meine Unterlagen), mobile, plastic sleeves, inkjet prints, aluminum, size variable, 2021

Bitte keine Originale einreichen (Kopien für meine Unterlagen), frottage and inkjet print on job center forms, 202 1 more details

o.T. (Paul & Michel), archival pigment print, 35 cm x 28 cm, commissioned work by Robert Hamacher, 2021

Gute Arbeit, gute Nacht was conceived for the duo-exhibition Meine Kompetenzen liegen ga nz woanders at Heit Gallery, Berlin. In Meine Kompetenzen liegen ganz woanders [My Expertise Lies Somewhere Else Entirely], Paul Niedermayer and Michel Wagenschütz examine the material conditions of social mobility from the literal (cars, traffic, hotels) to the abstract (self-fashioning, class habitus, financial liquidity).

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