Fair Building
In 2016 at the Venice Architecture Biennale entitled “Reporting from the Front”, the Polish pavilion hosted one of the most powerful installations of the whole show. For “Fair Building” Dominika Janicka, in cooperation with Martyna Janicka and Michał Gdak, created a set of five powerful short documentary films, which are now made available to the FA platform here.
In 2016 at the Venice Architecture Biennale entitled “Reporting from the Front”, the Polish pavilion hosted one of the most powerful installations of the whole show. “Fair Building”, curated and created by Dominika Janicka, in cooperation with Martyna Janicka and Michał Gdak, examined architecture from the construction workers’ point of view. An extended version of the project was also selected in the FA platform 2017 open call.
Construction work around the world is an extremely hard, dangerous and skilled job. It is still largely dominated by manual labor and the accident rate is high. Construction is, according to Janicka, the front line of architecture, yet construction workers are accorded little respect. Workers on building sites are the front line, the cannon fodder who make the highest sacrifices for the deadlines and profit of others.
Yet where, asks Janicka, is the contribution of these workers in architectural discourse? Why are they so ignored and invisible? For “Fair Building” Janicka and her colleagues created a set of five powerful short documentary films, which she has now made available to the FA platform here. The films give voice to the concerns of the often overlooked creators of our architecture; watch them!
(password: fairbuilding)
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