Postcards from the Periphery

 Postcards from the Periphery.

W.A.G.E. Certification is LIVE!

Why? Read our wo/manifesto.

situating oneself – laboratory in barcelona

What does is mean to struggle against precarity, globalization and neoliberalism in embodied terms? How do we forge networks of care, post-national struggles and solidarities in our everyday? When do we resist displacement and how do we resist through displacement? How do we think consistency and sustainability? What terms serve us to think an ethics and politics of displacement – situated/adrift, local/global, intimate/alienated, individual/collective, independent/interdependent, coming/going, flight/promise, transversality/intersectionality? What are the ways in which contemporary practices of displacement are produced by the neoliberal paradigm and embedded within structures and systems of governance?

1-5th October 2014 Politics and tactics within displacement. An international laboratory exploring the embodied politics of relating across places, contexts and social spheres. 

Manifest of the creative workers

are you in Dept?

Dept fair

Shut up and work for free lady!

“….Don’t like it but…I still have to explain at A.K. that I cannot work for free. I am already an unemployed – employed mother. ‘The plumber‘”

How dare you be an artist in today’s greece? (from the diary of an artist)

“Ηappy new year. I hope this year, I can finally answer, IN ONE WORD, the question “What is your job?” and … not with an entire paragraph. I am an actress but I work as an employee, as a saleswoman, as a plumber.”

Frieze Art Fair NY

Facts About the Frieze NY “Rat” Fair

• Frieze is a for-profit event that pays less than $1/ sq ft to lease city park land for two months.

• Frieze makes art inaccessible to many working New Yorkers with a ticket price of $42 per person.

• Frieze would rather bring in low-wage, non-union labor from WI, than pay NYers a living wage.

• Frieze is the only major NYC art fair using non-union labor to construct its fair.

Call the Frieze Office: 212 463 7488
Twitter: #FNY13 #FriezeRatFair @FriezeNewYork
artsandlabor.org

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Letter to artists, gallerists, fair workers, and attendees of Frieze New York Art Fair

To artists, gallerists, workers, and fairgoers attending Frieze New York:

For the second year in a row, Frieze and its subcontractor Production Glue have hired low-wage, non-unionized workers to construct their fair, bringing in people from as far away as Wisconsin. This breaks with the industry standard: the major New York City art fairs including the Armory and the ADAA, as well as many other cultural and business expositions, employ unionized workers to construct and run their shows.

Frieze is a for-profit private event that takes over a municipal public park for two months to serve a global clientele of wealthy art collectors. The fair pays less than $1 per square foot to lease the land from the city. With a ticket price of $42 per day, Frieze is inaccessible to many working New Yorkers. However, despite the cheap rent and high admission prices to an event that generates millions of dollars in art sales, Frieze claims it cannot afford to pay decent wages to local workers.  Read more…

I neither working nor unworking

Truth is concrete

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