Tim Schafer: "No one puts Double Fine out of business except me" - GamesIndustry.biz

TurkeyWorkplaces are among the most central yet least visible spaces of everyday life. These spaces, where the relationship between capital and labor is reproduced every day, often remain outside the public eye as closed spaces to which there is “no admittance except on business.”Once a symbol of industrial capitalism with its chimneys rising above city centers, the factory largely lost its urban visibility after 1980, as production was reorganized on a global scale. As manufacturing facilities in city centers gave way to residential projects, shopping centers, and cultural venues, production moved to the outskirts of cities, Organized Industrial Zones, and new infrastructural geographies where logistics networks converge. Yet spaces of production extend beyond the physical boundaries of the factory. Constantly changing in form and scale, they transform the earth, everyday life, and digital space into a continuous field of work. Salt’s new exhibition No Admittance Except on Business suggests reading production across different scales: the worker’s body, the “workplace” where the labor-capital relationship is constituted, the urban space, and global networks of circulation.