Re: The Employee | 2nd Draft

Thanks for our call this morning, █████████, I'm glad that I was able to clarify the role of your text within the book as a whole and excited to see what your work today yields.

As you move through, here are three main points to address:

1. The purpose of this essay within the publication is to contextualize The Employee as an artwork. It will be the only text in the book performing this function and so an expanded analysis of The Employee as an artwork is needed to set it up as the subject of the text in relation to the other artworks described.

2. A more substantive connection between The Employee and historical examples needs to be created throughout. For instance, a lot of text is given to Asher’s LAICA project, but we need to better understand how it links to The Employee, i.e. Asher’s work changed in response to not getting funding, while The Employee was oriented around procuring funding, and both works use delegation as a way to make work visible.

3. The work of Christopher D’Arcangelo in the LAICA project is described, but D’Arcangelo's project with Peter Nadin is perhaps more relevant to The Employee as it is also a work that engages with making the framing conditions of art visible and echoes with the Cabanel and with Ukeles. 

As always, we remain at your disposal should questions arise.

Warmly,

Lauren