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Subject: [transversal] new book: Art Workers – Material Conditions and
Labour Struggles in Contemporary Art Practice
From:    "Airi Triisberg" <airi_triisberg at yahoo.com>
Date:    Thu, April 2, 2015 2:34 pm
To:      "transversal-list at eipcp.net" <transversal-list at eipcp.net>
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Art Workers – Material Conditions and Labour Struggles in Contemporary Art
Practice
Editors: Minna Henriksson, Erik Krikortz, Airi Triisberg

What are the material conditions of contemporary art production? Why is
exhibition practice based on the unpaid labour of artists? Why do artists
pay to make exhibitions instead of getting paid? Why do art workers have
no health insurance and social security? How to struggle against
precarious labour? What are the historical and contemporary models of art
workers’ organising?

The publication Art Workers – Material Conditions and Labour Struggles in
Contemporary Art Practice presents research on the economic and social
situation of art workers in the contexts of Estonia, Finland and Sweden.
By analysing issues such as unwaged labour, gallery rent and social
security, the publication addresses a composition of problems that are
frequently framed as constitutive aspects of precarity in contemporary art
economy. In many contexts, precisely these problems have served as entry
points into public debates and collective practices of self-organisation.
The contextualisation of labour struggles and resistive practices forms
the second emphasis of the book, mapping out contemporary and historical
forms of labour organising in the realm of art and social movements.

The publication is edited and co-written by Minna Henriksson, Erik
Krikortz and Airi Triisberg, and includes further contributions by Corina
L. Apostol, Michael Baers, Fokus Grupa, Minna Heikinaho, Vladan
Jeremić, Elina Juopperi, Jussi Kivi, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Jussi
Koitela, Raakel Kuukka, Marge Monko, Zoran Popović, Precarious
Workers Brigade, Taaniel Raudsepp & Sigrid Viir, Krisdy Shindler, Tereza
Stejskalová and Lotta Tenhunen.

The book has been published with the financial support of Nordic Culture
Point, Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse, Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Cultural
Endowment of Estonia.

232 pages
In English
Graphic design: SummerStudio
ISBN 978–91–637–7946–62015
Free download available at http://www.art-workers.org/

Paper copies can be orderedvia bookshop Lugemik: www.lugemik.ee.Price:10
EURÂ 
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