Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit – Labour in a Single Shot is the last exhibi-

festival that takes place in former industrial production sites situated in the Ruhr area. The Ruhr Triennale is the result of extensive politi-cal efforts to cope with the breakdown of the industrial production in this region by trying to turn it into a hub for service and creative industries. So, being his last exhibition in Essen, the steel capital of the former industrial heartland of Germany and now a region bat-tered by unemployment, it is a kind of programmatic and at the same time contradictory end to Farocki’s work. The exhibition is sur-rounded by a city that faces bankruptcy and is currently under forced administration because of the financial deficit situation. It is taking place in a museum that was rebuilt with a 55 million euro do-nation from the Krupp Foundation, the owner of the Thyssen-Krupp Steel Company. This is as contradictory as it gets. The exhibition shows the results of the long-term project La-bour in a Single Shot that Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki started i