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CSV-
Corporate Social Values
a project of REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT with Stiftung Warentest
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Ausstellungs- und Projektraum
Brunnenstr. 151
10115 Berlin
opening, 29th of August 2008, 8pm
29.08. – 26. 09. 2008
CSV - Corporate
Social Values
The Projektgruppe REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT presents an artististic
perspective on the relations between consumer protection,
corporations and consumers.
The German Consumer Rights Organisation Stiftung Warentest
opened it´s doors for this project and made it possible
for the artists to be present for a specific product testing
process. For the exhibition, an artistic analysis of the phenomenon
of testing was created. It is based on the material which
was produced during the collaborative process and with statements
from product testers. The project has as theme the interdependencies
of the „Ethics of Commodities“ and the „Aesthetics
of Testing“. Consumer protection is a product and for
which growing number of market participants compete. An institution
like Stiftung Warentest finds itself in rivalry with other
vendors who publish product tests in publications that are
financed by print adds. How compatible are
mercantile interests and a claim of independence?
Which standards must corporations adhere to during the production
of commodities and what is the role of Corporate Social Responsibility
– CSR in evaluations? The importance of consumer protection
and ethical consuming is growing while common social values
are being developed. Are consumers really defining contemporary
society, as the sociologist Ulrich Beck asserts?
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Susan Donath (Künstlerin, Dresden)
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