Jenny Holzer: Messages
Jenny Holzer uses billboards and LED text, as in this example displayed in London as part of her Messages series (1988-89), to comment on social issues. She says that she wants to ‘make the big ideas in culture intelligible as public art’. By using various information systems to put her ideas or ‘truisms’ across, she sends what she calls ‘alternative public service messages’ into the public sphere, where they challenge our preconceptions and question received social norms (courtesy Artangel)
found while searching for Fishli and Weiss «How to work better»:
How to Work Better
· Do one thing at a time
· Know the problem
· Learn to listen
· Learn to ask questions
· Distinguish between sense and nonsense
· Accept change as inevitable
· Admit mistakes
· Say it simple
· Be calm
· Smile
[tags]art, display, screen, led, public space, social, politics, life hack, workflow[/tags]
