“MIKE” is a performance about labor and work culture by Canadian artist Dana Michel. From the fringes comes a silent rebellion that takes its time, but also your time. The work will be embedded in the exhibition “Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and the Moderna Museet’s Collection”.

The artist Dana Michel specializes in creating situations that have and develop through their own logic. Michel lives in a world of objects to which she gives new meaning and purposes, away from binary and linear thinking, making, and doing. She breaches social norms from a position of curiosity rather than provocation, gently ushering supposed “marginal figures” to the center of the conversation. With humor and sensitivity, she questions our very modes of existence.

The performance “MIKE” asserts the nomadic aesthetic that has become Michel’s calling card over the course of her career. In an open space, during three hours, “MIKE” invites the audience to spend time inside its universe. The work revolves around labor, work culture, and self-respect, and puts forward a burning question: is it possible to live public lives that reflect our inner selves? Put your faith in Michel’s hands, one yes at a time.

“MIKE” is a collaboration with Moderna Museet, and will be shown there. The duration of the performance is three hours. Witnessing the full experience is recommended, but you can freely leave and re-enter if necessary. It will take place in the exhibition “Seven Rooms and a Garden” at Moderna Museet.

An entrance ticket to Moderna Museet is required, but during Friday 2 February, visitors of “MIKE” have free admission to the exhibition.