Essex Olivares

Saturday 18th April 12–6pm
commences on each hour for 30 mins as part of the ongoing exhibition.

Live performance by Essex Olivares inside Columbidae curated by Laura McLean-Ferris.

Formally exploring the phenomenon of the office startup, Essex Olivares’ Office Riddim is a performance installation in an administrative environment that demonstrates the stress and virtuosity of enforced collaboration, flexibility, creativity, and other such corporate directives by employing a choreography in which water coolers and bulldog clips are collaborators.

Columbidae takes the administrative labour historically associated with the office as a starting point and includes the work of artists who have traced the various impacts of this work on the body, the mind and the home. At a moment in which workers are increasingly likely to carry their professions on their bodies at all times, the exhibition includes artwork that negotiates the architectures, tools, equipment or language of the office, pointing to moments of aspiration and depression as work continually collapses into life.