Labour Relations: Annotations on Productivity and Solidarity

The aim of this project is to develop a method of annotation to explore the interdisciplinary relationships between art and economics. The thematic focus of the research is the concept of labor, and the forms and mechanisms of inequality within it. A central question woven into the exploration of inequality is the extent to which societal notions of productivity and solidarity contribute to these inequalities.

Within the framework of this project, case studies from both disciplines will be selected and combined. Each case study will be deeply annotated, followed by the identification of connections through these annotations. The goal is to understand how the world of labor can be better represented, analyzed, and discussed by integrating both disciplines. Mathematical-statistical approaches will be combined with artistic methods to investigate how this intersection can foster expanded discourse.

The analysis and interweaving will also occur on the representational level. While economic analyses often operate with large datasets and diagrammatic images, artistic practices frequently engage with micro-narratives and constructed visual and auditory settings. I aim to explore how the combination of these two approaches creates the opportunity to operate on multiple levels, offering a space for multiperspectivity.

How can these levels be layered—abstract numerical data, in which specific relationships and ratios are expressed through numbers, and artistic formats with their spatial-aesthetic and symbolic dimensions, in which the working body and its spatial contexts are included as part of the analysis?