OH! Design

Grover|Ahldag

Fold-out Poster

Leaky Folds conflates the topographical measure of contemporary workplace with our psychological spreads, that of two artists immersed, and waged. Having sought mock-employment in one of India’s biggest software firms, Amitesh Grover and Arnika Ahldag appeared as workers at various locations across the company’s campus - at doorways and in elevators, at fire exits and at secure access points, during night shifts and as shadows of colleagues. They encountered narratives of data secrecy, offshore sites, and recurring crises, as the two learned to perform digital service work. Often, Amitesh and Arnika performed disruptions within the workplace - exercises in abstraction, uselessness, and work-lessness. Notes from this 6-months long immersion are assembled in these leaky folds. Read these perforations as a comment on the spread of digital capital, obsession with logistics and automation, and the messy reality of a post colonial world. Grover|Ahldag reconsider notions of value, leisure, performance, and acceleration, and seek to dither, to un-measure. Their bodies leaked. Their data leaked.