‘Your Money or your life!’ at the IETM Belgrade Plenary Meeting 2022 on Saturday 1 October 2022
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2022-10-03

‘Your Money or your life!’ by Jelena Vesić: Talk of the day
11 a.m. CEST ( (Belgrade, UTC +2) / 10 a.m. BST (London, UTC +1) / 5 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)

“Today a true artist is only the artist who can say, ‘for everything else, please address my manager’.

In such contrasting, antagonistic, and variable attempts to remove money, labour, and labour relations from the stage of art representation, there are obvious consensual efforts to explain that art cannot be understood as business as usual, as labour or work – but rather as something completely different. At this point, money appears as creative shame. [...]

However, [...] what will we find if we try to get closer to economic reality of ‘workers’ active in the ever expanding ‘world of art’ in all its domains of (self-)critical negations, transformations, excesses, inclusions, and exclusions only to focus on the very moment when projects and collaborations come to life? How does art-as-ideology inhabit speech used on such occasions?”

Vesić, J. (2016, September 29). »Administration of Aesthetics« or: On Underground Currents of Negotiating Artistic Jobs; Between Love and Money, Money and Love. Retrieved from schloss-post.com.

Join us for our Saturday keynote speech, where we will reflect on the discourse around love and money in the arts.

Speakers
Jelena Vesić, Independent Curator, Writer, Editor and Lecturer, Serbia

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