The artist as essential worker: a new essay from me on the national cultural policy and (some of) the complexities of labour in the arts

With thanks to Overland and AICSA

https://overland.org.au/2023/02/the-artist-as-essential-worker/

#art #labour #artspolicy #revive #postwork #UBI #paythewriters #jointheunion

@OrpheusandEurydice I think that our society has been so corrupted by seeing everything in purely financial terms that journalists find it hard to express why the arts are essential without discussing money #ArtsPolicy #auspol

@oldlillipilli exactly- does it mean that without commercial success we value the arts less?#CreativeAustralia
#artspolicy

Not a whole lot of hope for next week’s #NationalCulturalPolicy launch. (Extremely unscientific social media) poll results say 62% predict no more cuts, but no more money either. All fingers still firmly crossed.

#AusPol #ArtsPolicy #CulturalPolicy #ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #ArtIsEverywhere #ArtIsEssential

Not a whole lot of hope for next week’s #NationalCulturalPolicy launch. Poll results say 62% predict no more cuts, but no more money either. All fingers still firmly crossed.

#AusPol #ArtsPolicy #CulturalPolicy #ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #ArtIsEverywhere #ArtIsEssential

Cynical? Hopeful? Braced for disappointment? Any predictions for next week’s #NationalCulturalPolicy announcement?

#AusPol #ArtsPolicy #CulturalPolicy #ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #ArtIsEverywhere #ArtIsEssential #RethinkingArtsLeadership

Aus govt recognises our major cultural orgs are in crisis but? https://www.theage.com.au/culture/art-and-design/pm-says-arts-institutions-are-starved-of-funds-but-how-much-longer-can-they-hold-out-20230119-p5cdrb.html?btis #artspolicy

Arts Minister, Tony Burke earlier this week at Woodford festival: “Australian culture, our artists, our creators are not decoration. They are required, they are essential.”
#artspolicy

Here's my assessment of the root cause of artists' social, artistic and economic #Precarity and the radical #ArtsPolicy measures needed to effect change in infrastructures for the arts https://lnkd.in/eC3Uh4pQ published in Arts Professional.

RT @SusanJonesArts@twitter.com

NO MORE MINIMUM RATES! #ArtistsLivelihoods #ArtsPolicy - join discussion exploring effective, lasting change over on http://mastodon.ie/@SusanJonesArts

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SusanJonesArts/status/1597192006022746112

NO MORE MINIMUM RATES! They'll never give freelance artists the equity they deserve #ArtistsLivelihoods #ArtsPolicy - join in on the discussion

Lest #ArtsPolicy may forget when addressing levelling up imperative to respond to immediate needs and long-term creative potential of #VisualArtists who suffered worst of all #ArtsFreelancers in #COVID19 https://camp-membership.org/telling-tales/

#ArtistsLivelihoods #ArtsPolicy #UBI https://news.artnet.com/art-world/more-than-2000-new-york-artists-will-receive-1000-a-month-as-part-of-an-ambitious-new-guaranteed-income-program-2212204 "More Than 2,000 New York Artists Will Receive $1,000 a Month as Part of an Ambitious New Guaranteed Income Program". It 's intended as an alternative to the system of fellowships &grants that leaves artists living check to check." It's not universal - artists had to apply &decisions were made using a weighting framework acknowledging social & economic disadvantage so only 10% of applicants got funded, and it's a trial.

#VisualArtists
- What irks you about the surveys you're (so very often) asked to complete?
- From where you're sitting as an artist and human being what would be the most <supportive intervention> from #ArtsPolicy #ArtsOrganisations for you? replies to this thread or DMs as you prefer

#introductions hello new sphere! I'm a UK-based independent arts researcher in the areas of #artistsdevelopment #artistslivelihoods #artspolicy, publishing writing in arts and academic journals. I'm also an #artists' mentor and contribute to seminars ae workshops in HE and artist-led programmes.

A great summary from the ASA of the many author submissions to the National Cultural policy:

https://www.asauthors.org/news/authors-call-for-literature-to-be-put-back-on-the-arts-agenda-in-wave-of-submission-to-cultural-policy

#ArtsPolicy #OzLit #PayTheWriters

Great PhD on cultural labour going at UniSA with a placement at Vitalstatistix

https://www.unisa.edu.au/research/degrees/cultural-labour-public-support-and-the-arts

#artsfunding #culturallabour #artspolicy