Formats
Anthologies
101
Audio
305
Catalogues
353
Clothing
23
Editions
35
Ephemera
66
Literary
42
Monographs
154
Posters
258
Video
39
Zines
162

Shop > Monographs

#15092

Waging Culture: Interrogating the Canadian visual artist labour force

Price
$20.00
Date
2022
Publisher
Art Gallery of York University
Format
Monographs
ISBN
ISBN 978-0-921972-80-8
Size
18 × 25 × 2.8 cm
Length
96 pp
Genre
Criticism, Politics
Description

Over the past ten years, Michael Maranda of the Art Gallery of York University has been conducting the Waging Culture survey of the socio-economic status of professional visual artists in Canada. The data collected from this survey has brought forward a picture of a sector where the majority of the primary producers are essentially working for free, supplying the raw material with which the entire contemporary art sector functions. For those familiar with the sector, that day-jobs pay the rent for artists is not that surprising, but a solid, data-driven illustration of the extent of the need for such side-hustles is important to truly understand the intertwined mechanics of the sector.
This book, drawing primarily on the 2017 survey, includes a speculative look at some of the drivers of the artist labour force. In particular, we contrast a sales-driven winner-take-all model that exacerbates income inequality with a much more equitable grant-driven work-preference model. Accompanying this analysis, we also describe some of the perverse correlations of educational achievement to financial success in the field, with “profitable” artistic practices being negatively correlated to educational achievements.

  1. Waging Culture: Interrogating the Canadian visual artist labour
 

Related Items

  1. Waging Culture: Interroger la population active des artistes visuels canadiens
  2. General Idea and Philip Monk: Glamour Is Theft: A User’s Guide to General Idea 1969-1978
  3. Betsabeé Romero: E-kaadengaadeg Jiibken / Trenzando raíces / Braided Roots
  4. The Long Now: Public Studio
  5. Oliver Husain: Spoiler Alert
  6. Michael Asher and Anne Rorimer: Michael Asher: Kunsthalle Bern, 1992
  7. Jordan Scott: Clearance Process
  8. Iris Häussler: The Sophie La Rosière Project
  9. Ruth Buchanan: Where does my body belong?
  10. Terrance Houle: GIVN’R
  11. Emelie Chhangur, Ryan Doherty, Derek Liddington , and Fabien Maltais-Bayda: Derek Liddington: the body will always bend before it breaks, the tower will always break before it bends the tower will always break before it bends, the body will always bend before it breaks
  12. Philip Monk: Is Toronto Burning?
  13. Bojana Stancic and Alex Wolfson: And so, the animal looked back....
  14. Diane Borsato
  15. Caecilia Tripp: Going Space & Other Worlding
  16. Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown
  17. Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman: Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: Project for a New American Century
  18. Dieter Roelstraete and Zin Taylor: Zin Taylor: Lavender Glass
  19. Haim Steinbach
  20. Pope.L: My Kingdom for a Title
  21. Philip Monk: Spirit Hunter: The Haunting of American Culture by Myths of Violence: Speculations on Jeremy Blake’s Winchester Trilogy
  22. Bas Jan Ader and Jan Verwoert: Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous
  23. To Spoil the Party, To Set Our Joy Ablaze
  24.  Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp, and Linda Williams: Screen Ecologies
  25. Lou Sheppard: Rights of Passage
  26. Philip Monk: Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon
  27. Colin Campbell and Jon Davies: More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings
  28. Suzanne Hudson and Agnes Martin: Agnes Martin: Night Sea
  29. Nora N. Khan, Jeremy Shaw, and Maxwell Stephens: Quantification Trilogy Reader
  30. Josephine Pryde: The Enjoyment of Photography
  31. Valeriya Luk’yanets and Kateryna Nosko: Where Curating Is
  32. Nora N. Khan, Jeremy Shaw, and Maxwell Stephens: Quantification Trilogy Reader (Limited Edition)
  33. Rita McKeough Monograph Boxset
  34. Stefanie Hessler: Prospecting Ocean
  35. Jan Wade: Soul Power
  36. Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: The Power Given to Abstractions that Make Us Stupid
  37. Rita McKeough Monograph Slipcase