Fragebogen für Arbeiter:innen – Antworten aus der Landwirtschaft (A Workers’ Inquiry – Responses from Farmers and Harvest Workers)

The artistic practice of Alice Creischer (born 1960 in Gerolstein, lives in Berlin) revolves around socio-political and economic issues. In her interdisciplinary projects, the use of text plays a primary role – not only as a medium of communication or aesthetic-linguistic artwork, but also as a visual medium in its own right. For her current project, the artist interviewed farmers, including in the Mansfeld region, about their living and working conditions. Her point of departure was the historical A Workers’ Inquiry used by Karl Marx in 1880 to investigate the conditions of the French working class. Drawing on excerpts from her interviews, alongside historical sources and a fictional dialogue with a domestic pig, Creischer creates lyrical texts. These are presented as posters both within the exhibition and in public space, and can also be accessed via QR codes on the Werkleitz website: “there and back again and there and / morning and evening and morning / and in between the hours counted / that remain uncounted for us....”

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