A Brief Launch Party for the Stuntman Economy
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˜▾˜Come hang with us at DWS to celebrate the launch of A Brief Overview of the Stuntman Economy, a new artist book by Jacob Irish and Lauren Prousky.
We will have copies for sale and limited edition riso prints!
We will also be doing a low-stakes talent show where you can show or describe your stunts. “But I’m a normal person! I don’t do stunts!” you think as you read this event promotion. Well reader, you could not be more wrong! For this talent show, a stunt is an everyday task you perform exceptionally well. Tell us about a spreadsheet you made! Share a recipe you invented! Can you hold a plank for 30 seconds? Show us! Did you recently take one hell of a passport picture? Let’s see it! Life is hard! Show off your small wins!
There will be refreshments for sale and good tunes too <3
Event is free, but please RSVP!
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A Brief Overview of the Stuntman Economy is a fabricated historical account of an economic system in which all undesirable labor is outsourced to a personal Stuntman, creating an infinite chain of employer/employee relationships.
The first part is written as an academic paper published centuries after the system’s collapse. It outlines how technological acceleration and social normalization bolstered by vague bureaucratic oversight gave rise to this economy.
The second half of the work is a recovered journal (a relic) belonging to an “average” Stuntman. Through first person accounts of courtroom observations, childcare, job loss, medical procedures and grief, the relic undermines the supposed neutrality of the system established in part one to explore the psychological byproduct of a completely bifurcated existence.
Combined, the two parts implement late-capitalist logic to imagine a world where life is flattened into a series of transferable tasks and inconvenience itself becomes the only profession. The result is a quietly tragic satire about how the systemic outsourcing of human experiences distorts and destabilizes the self.
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