“Art is not supposed to be poisoned by money. Making money is considered dirty and the beauty of owning heaps is perverted by the constant fear of losing it all.” Tags: dripfeed_critical_economies MSE
“The arts, culture and heritage sector will receive an extra $87.490 million across the next four years, it was announced today in the government’s 2019 “Wellbeing” budget.” Tags: dripfeed_critical_economies
” Making a living as an artist is impossible for all but a few high-profile practitioners, and the lack of sufficient financial remuneration for artistic labour is the dark reality at the heart of the contemporary…
The sharing economy is now massive, with co-working, ride sharing and cooperative housing taking off around the globe. However, concern is mounting that many models are not in the spirit of the true peer-to-peer sharing economy.…
Mary’s story looks different to different people. Within the ghoulishly cheerful Lyft public-relations machinery, Mary is an exemplar of hard work and dedication—the latter being, perhaps, hard to come by in a company that refuses to…
We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the global economy — for the first time, the economy can become a design question for us all. Instead of imposing a uniform system of value upon us,…
We live in a world dominated by the principle of private property. Once indigenous people were dispossessed of their lands, the land was surveyed, subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. From high above, continents now…
Artists explore the U.S. food supply chain and its complex patterns of distribution between the point of origin (“the farm”) and its point of consumption (“the plate”) in How Food Moves: Edible Logistics, now through May…
Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed that the market in labour, where we…
The prestigious National Gallery of Victoria has been rocked by a wage scandal with allegations emerging that security guards are being forced to work for cash. Tags: dripfeed_critical_economies
Every student learns about Magna Carta, the ancient scroll that enshrined the rights of barons against the arbitrary authority of England’s monarchs. But most have never heard of its arguably more important twin, the Charter of…
It’s official: the 2016 Adelaide Festival was our biggest ever for the South Australian economy, generating a record $78.3 million in gross expenditure – an increase of 22% in just two years, the highest result in…
Based on a survey conducted in 2016, the data in this study reveals that the small-to-medium (S2M) visual arts sector employs over 2,000 people, puts $100 million into the economy and produces 26,000 new art works…
Detroit artist and curator Ingrid LaFleur plans to announce her candidacy Detroit mayor tomorrow at an event entitled Detroit Is The Future, fueling an increasingly hot race to the city’s top spot. Tags: dripfeed_critical_economies
If it wasn’t crystal clear just weeks ago, it is now: The economy as it stands is currently positioned in direct opposition to social and environmental objectives. For the sake of the wellbeing of our communities,…
The Fair Pay for Artists campaign calls on the federal government to allocate $5m annually to establish an artists fees fund. This would enable cash-strapped public galleries to be able to pay artists’ fees at least…
Writer Annie McClanahan explores the rise of debt as the definining economic feature of American life, and explains how the mounting crises of 21st century capitalism provide a site of possibility for the indebted to reject…
“What is the solidarity economy? The Solidarity Economy St. Louis describes it as an economy based on meeting “human needs through economic activities — like the production and exchange of goods and services — that reinforce…