W: La force du bio-travail / What would you like?

DV projection 28’, silent, subtitled.
Projection of 80 colour slides, 20’
2001

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M and W, two characters in an empty house, maintain conversations with their lips sealed. Nine conversations and two monologues related to their professional life, in which they manifest the symptoms of a character built in the wake of the new economy and its means of production.

Slides
80 comparative charts that tell the number of working hours which are necessary to obtain the cheapest and most expensive product of a certain kind (with a different kind of product in each slide), in relation to certain a monthly salary (as of march 2001).