The Whisper of a Dishwasher
Single-channel video (HD), sound, color, videostill, 14min55sec, 2018. © Kavachi.
The artist chronicles his own workday as a dishwasher at a hotel in Weimar from morning until the end of the day. Focusing on the rhythms between workflows, sounds and actions he addresses the often precarious working situations that many people with a migrant background find themselves due to the language barrier in the new country. More often than not the possibility of social mobility is not given. He questions the idea of social advancement through migration, especially the legend of going from rags to riches, starting as a dishwasher to one day become a billionaire.
Supported by Grant Award from Kreativfonds -Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Single-channel video (HD), sound, color, videostill, 14min55sec, 2018. © Kavachi.
The artist chronicles his own workday as a dishwasher at a hotel in Weimar from morning until the end of the day. Focusing on the rhythms between workflows, sounds and actions he addresses the often precarious working situations that many people with a migrant background find themselves due to the language barrier in the new country. More often than not the possibility of social mobility is not given. He questions the idea of social advancement through migration, especially the legend of going from rags to riches, starting as a dishwasher to one day become a billionaire.
Supported by Grant Award from Kreativfonds -Bauhaus-Universität Weimar