Bureau of Workplace Interruptions

An Intimate Bureaucracy

The Bureau of Workplace Interruptions is an "intimate bureaucracy" created to challenge our relationship to time and efficiency. BWI harnesses interruptive technology such as email, snail mail, and the telephone, as well as in-person visits to create invisible theatre that steals time from the realm of work and capital.

We harness interruptive technology to expose the secret possibilities of the workday. As a time-stealing agency, the Bureau of Workplace Interruptions works directly with employees to invisibly insert intimate exchange into the flow of the workday. Our promise is to create interruptions that challenge the efficiency of our audience and the social and economic conditions of the modern workplace.

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Exhibition History

• Subversive Complicity, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
• Beyond/In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• Au travail/At work, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, ON
• Version Festival, Iron Studios, Chicago, IL