Since 2002, the artist has initiated the “Housewife Art Creation Project,” transforming the private sphere of “home/residential space” into a space for artistic expression, coining the slogan “The living room is the exhibition hall.” Beyond contemplating the mainstream exhibition spaces for art, the project also raises questions such as “Is labor equivalent to production?” and examines the industrial relationships behind the art system, including the logic of production and consumption. Consequently, the artist sought opportunities for home-based piecework through classified ads in newspapers, attempting to replace artistic labor with domestic piecework labor. This served as a satirical critique of the parallels between labor exploitation and even fraudulent practices within these contexts.
In 2023, the artist revisited the home-based piecework project from two decades earlier by giving audiences the opportunity to reprocess and repackage Christmas ornaments, specifically “Christmas baubles,” originally crafted as part of that project. The audience was tasked with setting prices for these items and hanging them on an upside-down Christmas tree in the exhibition space. The artist then re-released these Christmas baubles as NFT art tokens on the akaSwap platform. Additionally, an AIGC anti-Christmas card design competition was held, allowing participants to engage in the labor of art production both in the exhibition space and within the Discord community. This engagement prompted reflection on the exhibition’s central question, “Are You Working Now?” By having audience interaction replace the artist’s role in content creation, the project questions the dynamics between AIGC robots, the audience, the artist, the exhibition team, art administrators, and curators—who, ultimately, is completing the artwork for whom? And what, indeed, is the core of artistic creation that cannot be outsourced?
自2002 年起，藝術家提出「家庭主婦藝術創作計畫」將「家庭/ 居住空間」的私領域作為創作發表的空間，喊出「客廳即展場」的口號。除了對於作品主流展演空間的思考外，質疑「勞動即生產？」以及藝術體制背後的產業關係，探問其生產與消費的邏輯為何？於是，在報紙分類廣告中尋找家庭代工的機會，企圖以家庭代工的勞動來取代藝術創作的勞動，並暗諷其間的勞力剝削甚至是詐騙關係的雷同。
2023年《工人智慧》藝術家將20年前的家庭代工產品「聖誕彩球」交由觀眾重新加工包裝、制定價格並吊掛至展場的倒吊聖誕樹上，藝術家將這些聖誕彩球重新上架在akaSwap平台成為NFT藝術代幣。另舉辦AIGC反聖誕賀卡設計競賽，讓觀眾在展場與Discord社群上參與藝術生產的勞動代工，回應Are You Working Now?展覽主題的提問與反思，當觀眾的互動參與取代藝術家的內容生產時，AIGC機器人、觀眾、藝術家、佈展團隊、藝術行政、策展人之間，究竟誰在替誰完成作品？什麼才是藝術創作不可外包的工作核心？
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Anti-Xmas AIGC Greeting Card Design
