Casted for Life? (Practical seminar)

Seminar by Ursula Ganz-Blättler

Everybody knows that "casted" candidates in talent shows have a hard time shedding the limited, prefabricated images - and audience expectations - raised by such tightly structured "reality" shows, once the respective format loses its tight grip on the candidates in terms of ratings fodder. In this course the fate of the "common" casting candidate is pondered within various institutional contexts, and the resulting typical career path is measured up against comparable processes within the corporate business world. What are the advantages - and the limits - of the "casting metaphor" when it comes to discuss trainees', home workers', migrant workers', child workers' ... and other persons' ... pre scripted life course within the corporate treadmill?