worker, inc

In 2007, Worker, Inc. saw a need for the documentation of everyday items existing in the American landscape and created the division "Neighborhood Residents Resources Ethnography Studies Unit." Not because these items are special or important (that does not matter), but because it is the opinion of the NRRESU that people have learned to "tune out" some of the more banal items in the landscape. The work of the NRRESU celebrates these items, bringing them to the forefront of our consciousness and gives us a glimpse of what is out there on the street, what we humans are creating, absorbing, and disseminating.

The products from the studies unit include Field Guides and Urban Checklists. All are parodies on our infrastructure, the way we use it, and on our human need to categorize the "precious" and "beautiful." The NRRESU embodies a great synergy between all of the activities Worker, Inc. participates in: the visual arts, architecture, graphic arts and socio-cultural research and analysis. Previous Field Guides and Urban Checklists are for sale at art museum stores and events as collectibles. This work led to a publication award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.

This work led to a publication and presentation award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts and a special multiples and monographs publication by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson.

urban checklist

 

 
 field guide

 

 
field guide

 

 
field guide

 

A special multiples guide publication or The Field Guide and Checklists is available at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Tucson