{"id":46574,"date":"2026-09-17T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/?p=46574"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:00:03","slug":"work-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/work-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Party"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"project":[890,889,451],"project_type":[817,725,731,743],"class_list":["post-46574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-ignore-all-previous-instructions","project-calls-2026","project-web-residencies","project_type-web-residencies","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\"><em>Work Party<\/em> is a series of experimental, high-speed gatherings between gig workers and app users in Bangalore, where the artist Tara Kelton uses the delivery apps\u2019 own mechanics to produce a party. Workers finally cross the doors\u2019 thresholds to break bread with the app users at the table.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">The food, party materials, and guests all arrive by ordering on the platform: A Blinkit worker delivers a folding chair for the next worker to sit in, a Swiggy worker brings tea, and everyone shares it.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">Convening the people the platform keeps apart is an act of refusal of its logic \u2013 and the worker is never made late; the gathering must fit inside platform time. This presents a design challenge that Kelton will use the residency to solve: how to build a party around the driver\u2019s workflow, from their vehicle to gate to doorstep, inside the user\u2019s home, and back.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">The app's \u00bbnote to driver\u00ab field is one of the few places the platform\u2019s code allows human interaction with the worker: this transactional instruction is overwritten with an invitation to gather.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">Speed is no longer only the gig worker's condition; everything now moves faster than human capacity. These gatherings will research the question \u00bbcan meaningful exchange happen at high speed?\u00ab<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">The project will be published as a manual with instructions for organizing a <em>Work Party<\/em> using any gig-work app, anywhere: how to co-opt any platform to turn it into a party, and how to host an exchange within the structure and speed each platform permits. Alongside this, documentation of the research and activities Kelton carries out with the workers\u2019 photos, videos, and texts (respecting the workers' privacy).<\/span>"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46926,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46574\/revisions\/46926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=46574"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=46574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}