The video installation Body in Progress by Anna Witt engages with ways of imagining and optimizing the world of work and life. Here they are conceptualized through an analogy between work and workout. In a 5-channel video, panoramas and details of the work environment in the area’s hotels, construction sites, and Erste Campus offices are interwoven with shots of athletic interventions into a fragmentary whole. Anna Witt asked a group of calisthenics athletes to use the buildings and work areas for their bodyweight exercise. The relatively new extreme-lifestyle sport of calisthenics is about free body training, which largely eschews fitness machines and can be done anywhere, at any time. Characteristics such as commitment, individuality, freedom from rules, and self-optimization – attributes of our contemporary working world – are symbolically transferred to the body. There is also textual content, based on the artist’s conversations with working people on-site, which explores their experience with work as a power factor and what they understand that to mean, as well as utopias and reflections on the relationship between the individual, work, and society.