The Cee Cee summer break is over, ergo we are back at work – the perfect moment to refer you once again to an item sold this July at the Cee Cee Shop: Die Flüssige Fabrik (Liquid Factory) by Berlin-based artist and designer Timo Hinze. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a book everyone has to read. Everyone who works at least, or plans to in the future. “Flüssige Fabrik” is devoted to us, workers who cling fast to our work and feel connected to it, driven not (or not always) by external pressures, but by ourselves. Though we may not stand on assembly lines, though we may sit at desks and stare at screens instead, we are nothing more than our own workers and optimization managers in one, constantly striving for productivity. The book, like the Tino Sehgal exhibition (that ran until 10.8.2015 at Martin-Gropius-Bau), asks the question: “Would you rather be too busy, or not busy at all?” Hinze’s Die Flüssige Fabrik was published (in German) by Spector Book (Leipzig) and costs 10 Euros – money well invested. (Text: Massimo Hartmann / Photos: Janar Siniloo)
