Melanie Gilligan examines in her series of films the constantly changing and schizoid experiential realities of everyday life under the conditions of neoliberalism. Employing contemporary high-definition aesthetics and referencing the genre of science fiction, her fictionalized narratives dissect the constitutive structures of contemporary capitalism. The five part work Popular Unrest (2010) will be shown in an installative display that refers to the aesthetic language of respective (working) environments. Popular Unrest (2010) is set in a world not unlike today, in which all forms of work, exchange, and social interaction are calculated and optimized by a system known as “The Spirit.”

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