TINGUELY@HOME #69 Ernestyna Orlowska: Make Your Body Your Machine

Performance at the opening of «Labouring Bodies». On the body-turned-machine as a symptom of the Gig Economy.


A woman on a scooter, the Rocky soundtrack, a delivery rucksack: what follows is dance, martial arts and fitness training in one. In her performance, Ernestyna Orlowska reflects on the body within the gig economy, where it becomes the extension of an app and of an exploitative business model. Her sports clothes and the slogan “Just Eat” unmask the obsession with optimization – as if eating, performance and beauty were that simple. In this way, Orlowska also asks: Do we have a body – or are we that body? 

Labouring Bodies

Labouring Bodies

«Labouring Bodies» explores the manifold interdependence between body and technology from a feminist perspective. The group exhibition shows how the human body—especially the feminized and marginalized human body—has since the dawn of the modern age been shaped and controlled by machines, while also being understood as a site of resistance. Artists cast light on working with machines, on the technologization of production and reproduction, and on women’s contribution to technological progress, inviting visitors to rethink their notions of body, labour and care.


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