Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Check out - ART WORK: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics

Art Work : A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics
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ART WORK: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics is a very cool project developed by the Chicago-based organization Temporary Services. It's not super-closely related to this class (maybe more for Social Theory?), but I'm totally intrigued.

Here's their About Us description: Art Work is a newspaper and accompanying website that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property.

I'm really interested about what other people (non artist types) think about the work of making art and if they consider it a job, or work, or what (neither?). I did a performance piece last year in Dialectical Practices based on a survey I created about this. Surprisingly, more people responded yes to artmaking being a job than to it being work. I find that totally fascinating (would have predicted the opposite).

Now with the economy going to pot, that throws things into an even harsher light. I look forward to reading through this newspaper/website in detail.

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