High Visibility Men (Performance Documentation) is an act appropriating the work of technicians, who were setting up and dismantling the installation One, Two, Three Swing! at Tate Modern in London between September 2017 and April 2018. The 45 minutes video shows the working days of figures, who, in the art system, are usually ‘invisible’: the art-handlers. 
This is an unauthorised project, aiming to appropriate all the setting up and dismantling phases of the Hyundai Commission scheduling, turning them into a performance documentation.

Through readymade, appropriation and artistic documentation practices, the project attempts to define a form of un-theatricalised action, in which the acts of the filmed subjects, the ‘performers’, had no pre-set directions. The result is the documentation of a found, captured, post-produced situation.

The amateurish aesthetic of the video emphasises its illegal aspect, and the slowness of the scenes is intended to report to the public, as much as possible, the found reality.

High Visibility Men is part of a research project attempting to investigate working realities and professional figures, which are obfuscated by institutions and exploited by turbo-capitalism. Among the invisible workers, such as those in food delivery or call centres, there are also upcoming artists. At least in Italy, such artists are precarious and professionally unrecognised, and they emerge with difficulty because of an elitist art system.