SPAM office made of cheap materials + zip ties

S.P.A.M. office made of cheap materials + zip ties
all photos by pieterjan ginckels and olmo peeters

from afar the ‘S.P.A.M. office’ looks like your regular workplace, with basic furniture and amenities–nothing over the top. and upon even closer inspection, one sees that in fact, the office setting is indeed constructed from the most basic and cheapest, or what the creator pieterjan ginckels likes to call, ‘SPAM’ materials. crude, taupe panels make up the structural supports of the furniture, all fastened by the lowly, nylon zip-tie forming the ‘ultimate representation of the volatility of SPAM‘.

basic, taupe-coloured boards are employed to form the structures of each furniture piece, held together by zip-ties

the ‘S.P.A.M. office’ setting was conceived as a response to the work environments of today–a performance piece in which employees go about their jobs in this fictional workplace. they all wear the same uniform, taking turns carrying through the same monotonous, undesirable tasks, much like the SPAM we are subjected to in real-life. the imagined company develops a nonsensical operation, which is further emphasized by the decorum of the bureau in which these actions take place–a bare bones environment, stripped of any corrupt or commercial deployment. but these performers’ activities are not simply trashed, they are actually in fact working for the artist himself as they carry out their tasks, selecting and biographically archiving actual SPAM messages for ginckels to use in his written work.

the performers of the ‘S.P.A.M. office’ are in fact carrying out meaningful work for the artist himself

the ‘S.P.A.M. office’ has been conceived as a traditional office setting devoid of any frills

zip-ties keep things together

office supplies

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