OUTSOURCED DOMESTICITY Research Residency “Tokyo-the new urban village" at Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan Cooperation of Esau Acosta, Alba Balmaseda and Claudia Larcher Video animation, objects, pictures, collages Tokyo 2013 in tokyo artist claudia larcher and architects esau acosta and alba Balmaseda were researching places with outsourced services, usually consumed in the privacy of one‘s home. the exploration was based on the theory of sociologist Jeremy rifken, that the new culture of hypercapitalism is „the age of access“, where all of life is a paid-for experience. under the title “outsourced domesticity“ they assembled video animations, pictures and objects, dealing with the impact of collaborative consumption on the society and contemporary architecture.
