‘The rhetoric that artistic freedom should be separate from talks of money and professionalization still prevails in art academies and public imaginations, making the survival — not to mention well-being — of artists a neglected topic. The Post-Precarity Zine, a result of collective reckonings from the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, co-organized by the INC, Platform Beeldende Kunst and Hotel Maria Kapel, discusses these elephants in the artists’ rooms.’

Read Jue Yang’s entire article, which balances between a report, a theoretical reflection, and a political manifesto, on the website of Metropolis M: https://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/45443_shifting_the_definition_of_professional_competence_post_precarity_zine_toolbox_for_beginning_artists.