The Shape of Labour
The labor process is always ignored in society. Shun Chih Chang believes that the value of labor should not only be reflected in the results but also the process. As an artist and also a laborer of art, he designed an extreme situation, projecting himself as a rebar binding worker who constructed endlessly. The artist tries to question whether the value of labor still exists in a labor circumstance where the results cannot be seen. The artist builds the sculptures with materials he developed himself and documented his workflow every day. All the labor that happened in his studio eventually became a real performance. In this project, the artist tries to reverse the way labor is viewed. Eventually, the process of labor becomes the main body of the work, and the sculpture is just a process of his work.
