Laboratory of Inactivity, a mixed-media installation by designer Zivile Aleknaviciute, critiques productivity culture and aging within a productivity-driven society.
The installation explores societal framing of inactivity in late-capitalist work culture through spatial composition, object recombination, and audiovisual narrative.
Using a hybrid artifact combining an old walker with an office chair, a video narrated by the artist's grandmother, and a myth-inspired fountain of youth infusion system, the work questions aging, productivity, and biohacking culture.
By creating a multilayered field of meaning, Laboratory of Inactivity invites viewers to reconsider the notion of aging within capitalist Western society and reflects on the politics of productivity.