Ales Ressel is a video artist whose practice explores the ways in which language constructs us as subjects within the world. Moving Forward (2011) is about the language of Human Resources Departments, job interviews, and self-evaluation, and foregrounds the inauthenticity of neo-management culture. The piece questions the validity of assessment in the workplace. Based on asking the individual to speak about themselves and their intentions, these performance analysis tools seem at cross-purposes with management rhetoric and its attempts to change the personality traits and ambitions of employees.

 Alex Ressel, Moving Forward, 2012

Video installation

POA

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Moving Forward mimics the brash language of computer assessment programmes in its pseudo positive application of corporate jargon, jarring aesthetic and nostalgic incorporation of office props. The absurdity of phony corporate culture continues to be mocked throughout the installation from the posters, with their senseless motivational slogans, to the familiar drabness of the beige wall behind.

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