STATEMENT
GREGORY SHOLETTE, GULF LABOR
Gregory Sholette is a core member of Gulf Labor Coalition an international art and research group that for five years has pressured the Guggenheim Museum to ensure fair labor standards for the workers constructing
the Museum’s new Saadiyat Island branch in Abu Dhabi. Sholette is the author of It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, co-edited with Oliver Ressler; and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture. His upcoming art projects include Imaginary Archive, at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen Germany, in September, 2015, and Seige! (or the continuing mis-adventures of Karl Lorac), for Station Independent Projects, New York, in November. He teaches studio art and social practice at Queens College, City University of New York.
the Museum’s new Saadiyat Island branch in Abu Dhabi. Sholette is the author of It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, co-edited with Oliver Ressler; and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture. His upcoming art projects include Imaginary Archive, at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen Germany, in September, 2015, and Seige! (or the continuing mis-adventures of Karl Lorac), for Station Independent Projects, New York, in November. He teaches studio art and social practice at Queens College, City University of New York.
