Marx for Cats

An unnamed cat and New York based visual artists Caroline Woolard and Or Zubalsky ask critical theorist Leigh Claire La Berge to explain keywords in contemporary capitalism. The interviews will be presented online via a dedicated website of short cat-and-capitalism videos, in a large-scale installation with glass cats watching the video interviews (forthcoming, 2019), or as a printed text transcription of the interview in GLU magazine (fall 2018). This is the animal of the wild-cat strike rather than the fat-cat. This is sab-cat [sabotage cat] also known as the sabo-tabby, who the International Workers of the World used to herald a “slow-down,” a refusal of the compulsory labor time of capitalism. This ongoing conversation and installation uses glass, video, text and performance to juxtapose the time of foregone time of capitalism with the time the anticipatory time of catpitalism.