A Collective Film Program about Work in the Gig Economy

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 13, 2021

What if 20 people create a 30-minute film program about 5 topics in 2 hours? During the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, PLOKTA organized a collective film program to find out exactly that. Everyone was asked to select a videoclip to somehow make a point about the gig economy. We worked with news items, TikTok content, instructional [...]

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY FIVE

By Dunja Nešović, October 1, 2021

The fifth and last day of Post-Precarity Autumn Camp served to recollect the knowledge of the previous four days and motivate participants to apply it to their strategies of durable self-organization. In the morning, Sara Malou Strandvad held a lecture ‘A Criticism of the Cultural Sector’ in which she provided a sociological perspective on the [...]

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY FOUR

By Dunja Nešović, September 30, 2021

During the fourth day of Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, the notions of dependency, wasted time, refusal, and selflessness in the artistic working life have been explored through the workshops prepared by Art Goss and The Long Tail of Art (Caradt). Curriculum Veto, a workshop facilitated by Art Goss, was aimed at rethinking the concept of CV [...]

POST-PRECARITY CAMP – DAY THREE

By Dunja Nešović, September 30, 2021

On the third day of the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, the participants had the chance to get an insight into alternative financial pathways of the digital art world. Geert Lovink of the Institute of Network Cultures gave an introduction to the research network MoneyLab that seeks to explore alternative revenue models, as well as to pose [...]

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY TWO

By Dunja Nešović, September 28, 2021

The second day of the Post-precarity Autumn Camp was marked by the discussion on the funding possibilities within the art sector, as well as the moral, ethical, and conceptual dilemmas that concern sourcing from both public and private finance pools. The day started with the workshop prepared by Marianna Takou from Casco Art Institute that [...]

POST-PRECARITY AUTUMN CAMP – DAY ONE

By Dunja Nešović, September 27, 2021

Twenty participants of Post-precarity Autumn Camp, jointly organized by the Platform BK, Institute of Network Cultures, and Hotel Maria Kappel have gathered in Hotel Maria Kappel in Hoorn to commence a five-day journey into the intricacies of overcoming the late-capitalist challenges artists encounter in aims to keep their practice alive and prosperous. The topic of [...]

Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to Survive as an Artist?

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 16, 2021

From September 27th until October 1st, the Institute of Network Cultures, Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn), and Platform BK organize an autumn camp for young art workers. Fifteen recently graduated artists, designers, and theatre-makers are invited to five days of conversations, workshops, and communal activities. Each day, we will address one important theme of working and [...]