What is the Work Collective?
The WORK Collective is a digital media, video projection and performance collaborative, based in Toledo, Ohio and Denver, Colorado. It was formed in 2012 when Mark Moffett collaborated with TimeTo Productions to create WORK, a two-story video and sound installation at Canfield and Woodward, as part of Dlectricity: Nuit Blanche Detroit. Since then, they have exhibited extensively throughout the Midwest, including their 2014 Dlectricity followup titled, CUbE x WORK feat. Paxahau. The WORK Collective is now comprised of 9 members, with a broad range of creative backgrounds.
What does WORK mean to you?
WORK represents reward and failure. The joy of shared accomplishment and a fear of rejection. WORK can give us both an identity and lack of individuality. WORK is struggle! As humans, we have a need, a desire to WORK. It’s how we relate to others. WORK defines who we are, as a culture, a class, our place and our relevance to the world. Through the use of digital media, noise and performance art, The WORK Collective creates immersive environments…layers, feedback, shadows, and loops that convey our message of WORK. Like society, our numbers vary and change based on a given project. We possess a broad range of talents, however, we often seek the help of others who can help us grow. Aside from our hope to make interesting WORK, we hope to promote community. Inspire neighborhoods to create a sense of pride, tear down barriers, reduce mistrust between distinct cultural groups and to help find common ground. WORK is an assemblage of several parts that create a whole. A shared responsibility. Together, we agree, we disagree, we laugh, we fight.
We are tolerant and we are restless.
We WORK!