Anna Witt
I Don’t Mind Working, I Do Mind Dying: Anna Witt
by Joshua Simon
Mousse Magazine
Apr 2020

“The 1968 Joe L. Carter Detroit blues song “Please Mr. Foreman” has in it the lines that inspired the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in the American automobile industry: “I don’t mind working, I do mind dying.”

Back then, the lines referred to the danger of working on the assembly line—with accidents and long shifts at the Chrysler and General Motors factories. But those lines still resonate when one watches Anna Witt’s latest film, Unboxing the Future (2019), only this time dying means becoming redundant, being replaced by a machine. 

Anna Witt
Vertigo. Visual Stories & Studies of Rapid Changes
Group exhibition
Fondazione MAST, Bologna
Feb 9 – Jun 30, 2024
Anna Witt
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Bettina Maria Brosowsky
Taz
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Anna Witt
Workers Forum
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Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Nov 23, 2023 – Feb 4, 2024
Anna Witt
INCITING PASSION
Group exhibition curated by Julia Hartmann
Vienna Art Week
Nov 10 – Nov 17, 2023