Answering 17 questions around the ingredients and recipes of cultural work, several artists, organizers, cultural workers were interviewed on how they make a living, on how they survive.
With this material plus reusable electronic junk (this varies from mixers to broken mobile phones to washing machine engines) we would like to build a no-budget installation, to show at Verbindingen/Jonctions 8. In this blog you can follow the different stages - from wild brainstorms to driving round.
These are the 17 basic questions:
q01. What is your name?
q02. What is your age
q03. Where do you come from? What is your geographical situation?
q04. What did you study?
q05. Do you provide for other people than yourself? For how many?
q06. How would you define your activity/ job/profession ?
q07. How do you introduce yourself to someone?
q08. Can you make a living from your occupation/work ? If not, how do you make a living ?
q09. Do you have a price list / fees?
q10. How do you calculate your fee ?
q11. Who pays the price/fees? Public authorities, institutions, private clients, companies, audiences, other…
What are the conditions ?
q12.Do you retain ownership of your work/works once transfered ? With what, with whom?
q13. Please, specify the equipment/material used in your work and their origin. More generally, what form does this investiment take : collective buying, loan, gift, etc ?
q14.Do you work in group, if so, with whom, what for, why ?
q15. Other questions and answers
q16. Pictures of your workplace
q17. Portrait
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