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Organization Chart of the Enterprise – Worker Productivity Trends in Periods 1 to 24

Worker Productivity

Richard Ibghy / Marilou Lemmens

 

Canadian duo Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens use visual and sensory experiences to translate scholarly findings into conceptual art. Their works particularly challenge the notion of economists as prophets of the modern era, able to reveal truth through their diagrams and organization charts. The artists infuse everyday materials with a subtle sense of humor, thus voicing their skepticism about academic models, exposing their transient nature. For Transactions, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens have created two large-scale versions of works in their series Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation (2016). In Organization Chart of the Enterprise (2016) the hierarchy of an entire enterprise unfolds before our eyes, from the managing director down to the production departments. The diagram Worker Productivity Trends in Periods 1 to 24 (2016) shows how productivity increased at the Western Electric Company in Hawthorne (near Chicago) between 1927 and 1932 in one of the most famous experiments in industrial history.

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