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“The body of work that I was making between 2009 and 2014 about creative labor, it was influenced by what I saw going on with my friends– like, no boundaries between your private and your professional life. With your boss feeling entitled to contact you at any hour of the day.”
In our “Human Nature” episode, Josh Kline discusses his artwork “Sleep is for the Weak (2011)” filmed for this segment at the @whitneymuseum in NYC.
“It's a series of three French press coffee makers filled with different liquids and substances. One of them is Red Bull infused with Vivarin, another is DayQuil infused with Dentyne Ice gum, and the third is Coke Zero infused with ibuprofen.
Thinking about what lengths will people go to to modify themselves, to make themselves good workers.”
Watch Josh Kline in “Human Nature” free on Art21.