BODY LANGUAGE
video, 614px x 614px, 6min5sec, 2004
shown at Kommuale Galerie, Darmstadt, 2004; published in Buy Sellf, mail-order catalogue, Marseille, 2004
Employers’ demands are no longer to be complied with by merely listing education and training, cv and job experience.
Poise, state of mind, teamwork ability, stress resistance, flexibility and commitment play an increasingly important role.
During a job interview, the applicant is to be assessed as quickly as possible. Assessment follows criteria that generally
were developed by American economics psychologists. In this, particular attention is paid to body language. Stance,
gesture, mimic details and visual contact are the above named criteria by which the applicant, although involuntarily and
subconsciously, conveys the desired information in a reliable and discreet, yet distinctly legible manner. An approach that
by now has become widely known. Via countless guides and courses, employees may learn the correct deportment to
be staged as a kind of intimate chamber play during a job application interview. BODY LANGUAGE is dedicated to this
somewhat rigid form of theatricals.