Garment Work at Meta-House: January 6 - 20

[curator]

Hello friends,

I am pleased to invite you to the Phnom Penh opening of Garment Work at Meta-House, the German 

Cambodian cultural institution (http://www.meta-house.com/).

Garment Work (2010) was conducted in residence at the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, formerly one of 

the largest textile mills in the world. It slowed operation in 1989 and housed artist studios, when the 

import of textiles to Germany increased. The video distills 34 hours and 36 minutes of labor into a ten-

hour video of a durational performance, when the artist took apart a pair of jeans with her bare hands 

under the contemporary conditions of the former factory. The installation includes the jeans’ 

constituent elements and a Tagebuch, a reference to the Brigadebucher, diaries of sociopolitical life 

under the GDR. Garment Work is a meditation on capitalism, integrity, loss, and perseverence.

I will give a short talk at the opening event and related short documentaries will be screened.

Read the listing here: http://www.expat-advisory.com/events/southeast-asia/cambodia/garment-

works-exhibition-opening-and-documentary-premiere

See the ten-minute preview here: http://www.vimeo.com/17656884

Or read a little bit more about the project here: http://camblogdia.blogspot.com/2010/12/january-6-

garment-work-at-meta-house.html

Hope to see you, or your nearby friends, on Thursday!

Anne Elizabeth Moore

http://camblogdia.blogspot.com