PATTERNS AGAINST WORKERS
Filmessay, 33:50 min., 2023, English (de/en subs)

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From the loom to digital code. From the architectural organisation of factories to the computer chip. Patterns Against Workers delves deep into the historical-material fabrics of technological infrastructures that determine contemporary conditions of labour. Tirelessly swiping and scrolling through archival documents, images and online maps, a hand traces the economic, political, and engineering forces, which manifest in the operating systems of our glowing screens. There, behind the surface, the repetitive patterns of weave codes, datasets, and orchestrated gestures, echo the all-pervasive methods of extraction that not only penetrate algorithmic networks but also deserted landscapes and sleepless bodies.

Patterns Against Workers addresses the state of collective exhaustion not only as a pathologic symptom of capitalism's exploitative forces, but as a socio-political condition that bears the potential for resistance - by becoming radically unruly.

In the exhibition space the film is accompanied by a textile display consisting of woven Jacquard fabrics. Oscillating between the production of textiles and the production of space, the virtual and physical, the image and the screen, the gridded fabrics create an architectural setting for the film projection.

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