The Worker is a series of performances that started in 2020 and was supposed to end during the election period, 2024. The full version of the piece would include 48 chapters but halted after chapter 6 due to financial issues.

The working process and the culmination of the performance had to be the following:

One time per month, the artist would visit different parts of Georgia, including occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Performer would partake in various tasks connected to people, nature, or infrastructure. Each video of the performance would be a message from the author, metaphorical letters, about where we are and where the artist feels we should be going. After a few months of working, civil solidarity awakens in the artist, which sometimes strips the author of their traditional role. The artist takes the place of reality with art and merges so seamlessly with chores and tasks that it becomes hard to distinguish which parts of the work are artistic or civil acts. Through this process, the work erases the boundaries between art and politics and creates art that is not a hedonist object of bourgeoise admiration but a life-defining political act.

Artist approaches elections in 2024 physically harmed and tired. From 48 fragments of work, like mosaics, comes out the social landscape, like a geopolitical jail. Outcoming image thus brings the inevitability of change, and the artist decides to run in elections. Running for political power happens exaggeratedly and becomes satirical and carnivalesque (as Bakhtin says, freedom gained through carnival). This culmination is laughing at reality while concurrently avoiding pathos while naming it.

In the pre-election period, half-naked, feminine photos of Andro Dadiani would appear on the street billboards in a royal cape. Through this image, the artist denies the traditional masculinity in politics and implies the necessity of mental rejuvenation. The slogan for the elections would likely be unspoken work. To enhance this idea, in the performance videos, Andro Dadiani is silent. The work becomes their words. The election program would consist of utopic, anarchist and leftist–social ideas. The program would include fragments from Republic, chapter VI by Plato. The candidate states that the state is barbaric, stealing from us year by year and becoming more powerful to suppress us further. Because of this, after elections, a civil parliament would form as a consulting coordinating political body, which will start slowly dismantling the state and move towards collective governing. Future governing texts will collaborate with anarchists, philosophers, politicians, sociologists, and ideological text of new model of building life would be published like an artistic text, a manifesto.

The candidate will start conversations about the disappearance of banknotes, naming coordinators of different fields, like Shadow cabinet, and the process will slowly turn from absurdity into a mystical, religious one. During this period, the artist would legally establish a political party. Even if 200-250 people vote for the candidate, this could be an action against an oppressive state in the metaphorical battle and reinforce the power of art.

The finished work presentation would consist of 48 monitors each for every chapter. Some chapters could display a single photo. For further documentation, the exposition would include the artist’s costume and different visual and writing materials.