I've decided many years ago: if there's a fee being charged to submit my work, NO thank you! If we all did that... Maybe I can pay but is this fair on the ones who cannot? what kind of filter is that?

Considering that, at least in Ireland, nearly 80% of visual artists live below the poverty threshold, charging to submit works (like paying to audition), is perverse!

https://hyperallergic.com/why-are-we-paying-for-the-privilege-of-rejection/ #ArtMatters #ArtWorkers #artists #artist #ArtistsOfMastodon

https://poweratwork.us/another-world-is-possible?

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
Between THE #NEWMUSEUM
And LOCAL 2110, #UAW
OCTOBER 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024
https://decolonialhacker.org/article/severance

Art and Labor podcast for art workers trying to understand their place in the brutal capitalist systems of power.
https://artandlaborpodcast.com/

Artsploitation
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/against-artsploitation-kopel

Interview
https://burnaway.org/magazine/lily-bartle-dana-kopel-new-museum-union/

#artworkers #LaborMovement #Museumworkers #Organize #solidarity #unions

"How Ireland’s landmark €325-a-week arts scheme changed my life – I’ve never taken it for granted

Out of 8,000 eligible applicants for the Basic Income for the Arts, 2,000 were selected. I was one of them"

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/06/21/how-325-a-month-changed-my-life-ive-never-taken-it-for-granted/ #ArtMatters #BIA #Ireland #artists #ArtWorkers #mastodaoine

For the next 5 days on https://miaaw.net you can hear Sophie Hope and Marc Herbst discuss cultural movements and their crossover with political movements, “post-migrant” studies, precarious research and cultural methods for working with possibly traumatized people.

Marc has recently completed the research for 'Always Coming Home: A precarious worker’s inquiry into “creative work” in refugee homes in Saxony', Germany.

#CulturalDemocracy #refugees #Saxony #artworkers #children

This Friday on Common Practice at https://miaaw.net Sophie Hope returns to the microphone to interview Marc Herbst about Always Coming Home: A precarious worker’s inquiry into “creative work” in refugee homes in Saxony

#CulturalDemocracy #migrants #artworkers #Children

RT | #Strike|s, occupations in theaters & art schools, protests, concerts against the degradation of art and culture by the government in #Greece!

📢Spread the words: We want education, culture, art, labor rights for the #ArtWorkers! #antireport #occupy #Artists #antireportgr @antireportgr

How do we know the rich don't like #regulation?

Take the market for #contemporaryart, where they are dominant:
largely unregulated, problems from the #exploitation of #artworkers to the utilisation of art in #moneylaundering, not to forget #artwashing - where art is used to obscure shady behaviour - are widespread

In 2022 a Code of Conduct for Contemporary Art Collectors was launched, identifying such practices as unethical - it'll be interesting to see what effect this has!
h/t @artmonthly

#COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic #artworkers #music #art #videos #film #greece #symi

RICHER, SHARPER, MORE IMMERSIVE

To mark the first week of the slow easement of lockdown in Greece and to draw attention to the plight of all art workers (painters, musicians, actors etc) both here and across the world, I am pleased to announce that all the videos on the PHIDOC website have now been digitally remastered to provide a sharper, richer, more immersive experience, especially when played on a PC/laptop connected to a good sound system.

Why this labour of love? “Because you’re worth it!” (LOL)

Sample:

Kali Stata

https://www.phidoc.net/kali_strata.html