ABOUT

Valerie Wiseman, You Do The Math, 2020; Admin Desk Installation; Website; Video; Documentation of administrative processes Aug. 2010–Aug.2020, tasks & work; Google Form; Google spreadsheet; dimensions variable.

Developed as part of Mapping the Future World exhibition & program produced by transformer.

Emphasizing and sensationalizing the assumptions of mechanized admin in the production of the arts, You Do the Math is an archive of one admin’s labor and serves as an invitation to share in the process of the art work. Proposing a system of presentation and categorization of admin projects and tasks, the artist attempts to organize and quantify the human action and interactions of admin work in the arts.

Thank you to fellow admin & artists who helped produce this iteration of the project, as well as all those that came before it: RHM, CK, AJ, AR, GP, KL, HS, KP, VR, DL, JM, MD, AB, IL, MO, EE, EC, PH, JC, APF, MR, WT, LC, LL, SS, GS, CS.

Image Credit: Admin Wall Installation View, 2020; digital photograph.
Featured Artwork by artists Rex Delafkaran, Victor Kalorama, Alanna Reeves, Valerie Wiseman, and Naoko Wowsugi.