Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Michael Thouber
Henriette Bretton-Meye
Description of the presented project:
Simon Dybbroe Møller’s adaptation of Richard Scarry’s iconic 1968 children’s book What Do People Do All Day replaces the original’s drawings of cute anthropomorphized animals doing people-things in industrious and purposeful Busytown with real life neurotic humans operating in the skizophrenic landscape of post-capitalism. Here app-based gig economy occupations rub shoulders with vocations that seem weirdly anachronistic. We are reminded of how much remains unchanged, how we still fix the sewers, serve meals, cut down trees and drive trucks. We are taken on a journey from the idealistic “everybody is a worker” of Busytown to todays techno capitalist “everything is work”.
Description of the institution:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is one of the largest and most beautiful exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Northern Europe.
The exhibition space presents an ambitious program with international outlook featuring talents as well as established stars from both Denmark and abroad. Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents uncompromising and agenda setting art still understandable for everyone.
The trendsetting exhibition program is supplemented with a large number of activities like artist talks, performances, concerts and film screenings.
Simon Dybbroe Møller, What Do People Do All Day
Video
various
22min
2020-22