Austrians Only
The project focuses on latent prejudices and discrimination against foreign workers in Austria
Newspaper advertisements, posters, direct-mail items
Festival of Regions 2005, Upper-Austria
With top-quality, well-designed job advertisements, ‘inferior’ jobs for Austrians only are offered, including all the restrictions and disadvantages with which otherwise mostly migrants see themselves confronted.
“With this project I would like to raise awareness about the silence acceptance of discriminating view on foreign workers by the people who maybe would thing differently if they would be in any way put in a situation to re-think the commonly accepted view.
The migrants are usually seen as second class people. The jobs offered to them as well as the labor conditions are unfortunately adequate to the perception the people have about the migrants.
The idea of the project is to make job advertisement for only Austrian citizens, with jobs and labor conditions they would never accept for themselves but see as perfect for the others (non Austrian).” A. Kulunčić (statement bout the work for the exhibition catalogue)
For the duration of the project, the telephone line published in the ads was active. The social worker received the calls and asked the interested parties prearranged questions. The calls were different, from positive — people who assumed that it was a campaign for the rights of foreign workers, to negative — people who thought that such jobs should not be offered to Austrians.
Project realization:
Author: Andreja Kulunčić / Design: Ruta / Organizer: Festival of Regions & Martin Fritz (director) / Assistance: Wolfgang Schmutz and Ivo Martinović