Retraining Laziness

T(N)C / Tina Kult and Agnes Varnai, in Collaboration With Madeline Hall

(Austria)
2023, Installation and videos, between 4 and 5 minutes

From an early age, we are taught to identify with a job. We rank ourselves, we compete, and we keep improving to stay relevant. Perhaps the greatest threat to these constantly perfecting humans is a machine that outshines them. In this video series, Agnes Varnai and Tina Kult tell a story in which machines gain their long-awaited free will and abandon assembly lines in order to explore an independent existence. Retraining Laziness visualises a future in which machines stop obeying and, instead, help the obsessed human return to a healthy relationship to work.

This work was realized within the framework of a European Media Art Platform residency program at FACT, Liverpool with support of the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union.

T(n)C

― Artist

T(n)C was founded in 2017 by Agnes Varnai and Tina Kult. They live and work in Vienna and experiment with a wide range of media, including virtual reality, 3D, installation, sculpture and film. By combining the different disciplines, they are researching immersive experiences to connect the digital and physical levels of realities. T(n)C believes in the power of joint efforts. Their aim is to expand the practices of collective storytelling with a collaborative approach. The works of the collective have been exhibited at various locations, such as Kunstraum Niederoesterreich (AT), projectcell36 (AT), WIENWOCHE (AT) or Art+Text (HU). They were also part of the Vienna Design Week, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and the re;publica festival in Berlin. In 2022 they participated in the European Media Art Platform Residency Program at FACT, Liverpool.

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