”Freelance working class balance baby boss call beep beep go go”, 2024

Maiken Stæhr

for #vi. miss universe

Differens Magazine, autumn 24

The work ”Freelance working class balance baby boss call beep beep go go” serves as  a paraphrase of the way some design houses incorporate and appropriate materials and symbols from precarious work. 


Bio: Maiken Stæhr (she/her) is a visual artist trained at the Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus and Akademie Der Bildende Künste, Vienna. Through site-specific sculptural and performative approaches, her work investigates class markers and identifications in relation to gender, consumption and food culture.  Her work focuses on feelings of alienation, meaninglessness, and absurdity in relation to what we consume, the bodies we inhabit, and the work we undertake. Maiken Stæhr lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and you can follow her work on www.pollyannacowgirl.eu.