Anxious to Make

Collaboration

2015 - ongoing

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Anxious to Make is the collaborative practice of Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez, two commissioning bodies. Our focus is on the so-called "sharing economy" and the contemporary artists "anxiety to make" in the accelerationist, neoliberal economic landscape. While Anxious to Make’s physical existence takes many shifting forms, it often manifests as series of video commissions, downloads, online generators, workshops, net art interventions, and sweepstakes. Anxious to Make believes in absurdist extremes as way to examine contemporary realities.

Recent works consider subjectivity and cooperation under platform capitalism; class struggle in the “always on” sharing economy; artistic entrepreneurship as a critical framework; and speculative business model design methodologies for a post-carbon, post-capitalist future.

Our work has appeared recently in Media Art Biennale WRO (Wroclaw, Poland), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, NL), and The Luminary (St. Louis, MO).

More at: ANXIOUSTOMAKE.GA

DOCUMENTATION