Marthe Prins (NL) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Amsterdam. Drawing from tactics of resistance theatre and comedy, she explores the relations between exploitative productivity and the performativity of work. Proposing a radical rethinking of the totalisation of work under neoliberal capitalism, her performances, curricula and programmes address (a.o.) the false promise of labour-saving technologies; devaluation of women’s work; the absurdity of (self)optimisation tech, trickle-up art-sector hustle-culture; refusal of work; work as waste; wage-theft, the politics of the CV and the theatrics of art-world CV-bluffing.
Recent performance/works include Curriculum Veto and Window of Opportunity, Out of Office at Impakt Festival Utrecht; Rehearsing Refusal at Fault Lines Forum; If Not A Worker, Who Am I at Museum de Lakenhal and GAS/LIGHT at Het Resort Groningen.
Working with many students in and outside The Netherlands, Prins has developed curricula for artistic research for the last 10 years. At the Royal Academy of Art The Hague she worked as researcher at the Deep Futures lectorate. In 2020 she co-founded Art Goss and for Het Hem she writes a satirical advice column: Noa’s Advice.
Marthe Prins is member of Lectorate Design's Deep Futures Research Group 23-24 and has participated in the KABK Research Group 2019.