Trust the Building

Can a building be trusted? Which protocols and procedures that are carried out in a building make it trustworthy—or not? Through an intricate mesh of subtle interventions, The Group has turned a vast, half-furnished office floor of a corporate headquarters into an intriguing situation that lays bare the support infrastructure of the modern worker in their global connectedness. By unfolding acts of office archaeology and acupuncture in an occupied building, daily office routines of security checks, elevator chatter, coffee corner, whiteboard brainstorm and document shredder are reframed as a sacred passage towards neoliberal enlightenment of office life. Upon existing Trust the Building, we begin to understand: We might be able to check out of the air-conditioned interior for a brief moment—but can we ever leave? Trust the building! Trust the building? Trust the building…