ZAYNE ARMSTRONG
ZAYNE ARMSTRONG
Zayne Armstrong (1986, UK/US)
Since 2018 they have been working on Days, an on-going serial video project inspired by long-running soap operas and how they often inadvertently produce multi-layered communities which live in between fiction and reality. Through an expanded approach to scenography, their practice uses installation, sculpture and film to address issues related to contemporary models of labor and the rise of the precarious class. Through the production of works in series, they try to find lasting forms of artistic collaboration, both as a duo, but also with other artists, writers, filmmakers and actors they involve in the various productions of Days.
Their work has been presented at places like Pogo Bar - KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Kunstnernes Hus Kino (Oslo), Porn Film Festival (Berlin), Dreamland Film Festival (Athens), Triangle-Astérides (Marseille), Sundy (London), The Vigeland Museum (Oslo), Agder Kunstsenter (Kristiansand), NKR (Düsseldorf), CCA Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Forte di Fortezza (Bolzano) and Kling & Bang (Reykjavik).
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We began our artist duo with a serial video ‘soap opera’ project called Days, and most of our work relates to its storylines or functions as its scenography. Days adapts the romantic themes, typical to soap operas, to stories about labour (emotional, unpaid and abstract labour), and its domestic spaces are swapped for the so-called ‘third spaces’ of neo-liberal labour: the cafe, hostel, bar, car, gym, co-working space, public park, etc. The video works engage numerous collaborators in forms of satirical auto-fiction and docudrama, set within synthetic stylized spaces that speculate urban dystopia.
FILMS
Days (Pilot)
Beni: Under the Influencer
Charli & The Factory
Many of our projects bare the names of the various spaces of Days:
PROJECTS
If These Walls Could Talk to Marlie
Phonehenge
The Factory
The Grind
Maximal Hostel
WeUFinder
Store Front Space
HANDBAGS