Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work
Research Presentation
 

Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work takes the video work of New Zealand artist, Darcy Lange (1946 – 2005) as the starting point for a complex discussion concerning the representation of labour.

Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work

12 August - 27 September 2015

Integrated within NTU CCA Singapore’s overarching research framework PLACE.LABOUR.CAPITAL, The Lab will present Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work, taking the video work of New Zealand artist, Darcy Lange (1946 – 2005) as the starting point for a complex discussion concerning the representation of labour. During the 1970s, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work that draw from documentary traditions as well as conceptual and structuralist video making. With his seminal style of real-time, unedited, without commentary, lengthy observations of workers that came to characterise his Work Studies series (1972 – 77), Lange aimed to “convey the image of work as work, as an occupation, as an activity, as creativity and as a time consumer”.

Curated by guest curator, Mercedes Vicente.

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Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work, August 12 – September 27, The Lab, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work, August 12 – September 27, The Lab, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work, August 12 – September 27, The Lab, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work, August 12 – September 27, The Lab, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work, August 12 – September 27, The Lab, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work, August 12 – September 27, The Lab, Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
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Contributors
Mercedes Vicente
Mercedes Vicente
Research Fellow
Spain, United Kingdom

Mercedes Vicente is a curator, writer, and currently interim Director of Education and Public Programmes at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Vicente was Darcy Lange Curator-at-Large at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand and expanded her research on the pioneering work of Lange through an AHRC-funded PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. In conjunction with the NTU CCA exhibition Allan Sekula: Fish Story, to be continued (2015), Vicente curated in The Lab the project Darcy Lange: Hard, however, and useful is the small, day-to-day work.

Darcy Lange
Darcy Lange
Artist

Darcy Lange was a New Zealand artist born in Urenui. During the 1970s, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work that draw from documentary traditions as well as conceptual and structuralist video making. With his seminal style of real-time, unedited, without commentary, lengthy observations of workers that came to characterise his Work Studies series (1972 – 77), Lange aimed to “convey the image of work as work, as an occupation, as an activity, as creativity and as a time consumer”.