What we set out to achieve was fairly well received, and I believe the pieces that represented time stolen away from work to be a success. We set out to reclaim time for leisure not work. However what we made although a representation of leisure in the artistic sense, was in fact an act of work in itself. During these interventions, to avoid being noticed by the 'boss', we made an effort to still look like we working.
We wanted to reclaim the time for ourselves but did the act of trying to look like we were working actually make that time ours? By following the normal work structure, the time was still dedicated to the employer. Also, by producing something we were still working. We were producing something for ourselves, but it was still a mode of production. We were still working towards achieving something. It was time reclaimed for ourselves but what this intervention highlighted was that it was not necessarily leisure time that we reclaimed. This intervention has led me more towards the question of whether we can actually have a time for leisure which truly is independent from the conditions of work. Therefore I want to know whether we can ever escape the external influences of work upon ourselves and create a time which is truly ours. Is it really leisure if there is an external forcing saying DO?
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