Working Precariously - Collective Zine from Cultural Workers
Hello!
I am working on a masters thesis investigating alternative ways of confronting precarious positions in the art, culture, and creative industries. I am looking at ways and methods art education can improve internships/traineeships, low paid labor in the art, cultural, and creative industries for both the people conducting the labor and the people receiving the labor (organizations).
This survey takes approximately 15 - 20 minutes to complete. Many parts are in multiple choice or check boxes to be the most efficient with your time.
This zine has the deadline of 20.7.25 resulting in one or two A3 issues. If less submissions are received it will result in one A3 zine and vice versa (more responses = more zine issues). Issues will be distributed in Copenhagen in early August and distributed in Helsinki and Imatra in late August.
This survey's results will result in a printed zine printed in Copenhagen and Helsinki and most likely exhibited in Helsinki and Imatra. This project offers no fees or materials for participation, this project is purely out of interest to publicize and create transparency around experiences with precarious labor in the creative industries and has a low budget.
The printed zine collects testimonial, advice, resources, solutions, complaints, wishes, dreams, for the creative industries. Including demands to our bosses, funding bodies, universities, governments, the unemployment office, and other institutions. I hope this zine can also become a collective imagining for an alternative future in our industry.
Key words for this project are:
Precarity, cruel optimism, alternative economies, community economies, diverse economies, Nordic art education, collective action, mutual aid, learning-by-doing, subverting neoliberal logics , community building, skills sharing, public art, collaborative practices... +
You may choose to remain anonymous or you may choose to be credited by name.
This survey asks multiple choice questions to prompt you to consider what were the circumstance of your position that will help develop a text you will write to be included in the zine.
Contents:
Basic Details
* Your Positionality
* Your Role
* Organizational Content
* Barriers
* Motivations
* Feelings related to Work as Art Pedagogy
* Improving Work as art pedagogy
How can the nature of internships change?
* Permissions
* = multiple choice.'
Your email will not be shared with any third parties and will not be published anywhere. I will use your email to get into contact with you and share the final printed form, distribute images of the zine, and include any news related to the project (such as exhibitions or other projects). This project has a research lens in the field of art education.
If you'd like to learn about me, who is behind the project, you can find me here, here, and you can reach out to me here: gabriellapresnal@gmail.com or gabriella.presnal@aalto.fi