Precarious Labour in the Field of Art
<p>The general shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment has effected also the field of visual art, changing the labour market for curators. Their position in the division of labour has become closer to the one of artists, in the sense becoming much more unstable, short term, flexible, and exploited. An important aspect of the new working conditions is the demand for physical and mental mobility. This is affecting both the curators with “steady” jobs whose working places and working hours are becoming fluid, and even more so the freelance curators who offer their services to a free (art) labour market…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall, Silvia Simoncelli
Editors: Zoran Erić, Stevan Vuković
Administrator: Silvia Simoncelli
Contributors: Carrotworkers' Collective, Anthony Davies, Zoran Erić, Freee art collective, Pascal Gielen, Rosalind Gill, Adrienne Goehler, Marc James Léger, Angela McRobbie, Andy Pratt, Andrew Ross, Stevan Vuković
Proofreader: Michael Birchall
Designer: Michel Fernández, Jeannine Herrmann, Linus Hunkeler
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904