Lavoretto is a portrait of the contemporary artist’s mid-career condition.

In this installation-performance, Giuseppe De Mattia transforms the Toast cabin into a call center, using the structure and its woking history as a set in which two performers/operators will follow a script and rules written by the artist as they try to “present” the result of the performance to museums and institutions both in Italy and abroad.
The two operators will spend an entire working day making calls of this nature and will be compensated with an entertainment worker’s base salary.
A lunch break, a soccer match in the DLF fields in front of the Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, and a dinner at a pizzeria before returning home, will conclude the working day and the private performance.
The day’s dull routine will semantically nullify the importance of the artist’s working shift, obliterating its meaning and final purpose: finding a job in the art world.

For one month, the public will be able to see a vivisection of the performance experience-turned-installation, with furniture designed by the artist for the cabin set, an audio track, and two photographs.
Publication of a book that will reveal behind-the-scenes details and results will follow.