‘Moneylab Updates 2021’, lecture by Geert Lovink at Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn)

By Angela Luong, December 1, 2021

Presentation on Wednesday morning September 29, 2021, the third day of the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to Survive as an Artist? at Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (NL). As crypto fantasies overflow with the same old biases, we once again put the question of the definition of money on the table. What is the definition of [...]

Freelance Worker in the Dutch Cultural Sector? Fill Out This Income Loss Survey

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 30, 2021

Once again the cultural sector is being hit hard by the corona measures and once again the self-employed are at risk of being left without support. In order to take action against this, we want to get a clear idea of your loss of income. The restrictive measures are understandable given the circumstances, but the [...]

‘The Elephant in the Device’, Silvio Lorusso on Gig Platform Fiverr

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 24, 2021

Need a logo, webdesign, translation, or set of subtitles? In the mood for something more extravagant, like a personal video message from Jesus Christ? Fiverr is your place to go. On this online marketplace, you can order freelance services quickly, easily, and cheaply from anywhere in the world. These extravagant possibilities spur the question of [...]

4 Demands for Economically Responsible Art Education

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 13, 2021

Our future generations of artists deserve to be prepared for the unruly reality of the labor market of the cultural sector. We therefore find it hard to understand why many art students graduate without knowledge of the Fair Practice Code or the Guideline for Artists’ Fees; have no idea about the trade unions and professional [...]

Principles of Post-Precarity

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, October 27, 2021

‘What are we to make of someone who says they love their work and cannot imagine doing anything they enjoy more, yet earn so little that they can never take a holiday, let alone afford insurance or a pension? How are we to think about a person who is passionate about the creative work they [...]

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 AUTUMN 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 [...]