Difference between revisions of "The Substation Town Hall"
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− | With a so-called lean team at hand, where do they draw the distinction between artists as practitioners and artists as part time staff? At the interest of creating programmes with artists, how are artists compensated fairly? And how do we address issues of rights of the programme? | + | * With a so-called lean team at hand, where do they draw the distinction between artists as practitioners and artists as part time staff? |
+ | * Fair pay for staff: The staff of The Substation are key to its running, it is their passion for their jobs and professionalism which makes it what it is, yet they will end up working extremely long hours with very little remuneration. This potentially makes it very hard for the team to do its best when met with personal pressures as well as work pressures. The staff (starting from the Artistist Director, General manager, programmers, techs, operations, finance, everyone else) need to be receiving a pay at market rate. | ||
+ | * At the interest of creating programmes with artists, how are artists compensated fairly? And how do we address issues of rights of the programme? | ||
Revision as of 14:06, 29 February 2016
IMPORTANT NOTE: the content in this page is not mine only but has been edited/compiled from various recent discussions with a number of other artists/art workers and also from other shared google docs. Some of the ideas have been reworded in my words. It was difficult to grasp the enormity of it all the issues so i thought it would be beneficial to divide it into questions on different levels. I have reorganised and typed it out in the hopes of just providing some useful starting points for thinking about The Substation.
Executive | Operations | Curatorial |
The Board's role needs to be clarified to the public
Ownership
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Labour and Fair remuneration for artists and artworkers:
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Process
The Public Voice
Inclusivity of communities
Cabinet of Curiosities (Current AD has proposed a "cabinet of curiosities". details are still forthcoming)
Difficult questions: The Substation's direction now seems to be one that encourages artists to deal with "difficult questions" and think critically about society at large, and to reassess perhaps the stakes artists have in society. Difficult questions, surely, will include issues the state will not be willing to confront including operation coldstore, operation spectrum, josef ng, lack of democracy, 377a, labour rights, human rights, queer communities, capital punishment just to name a few. Will substation be ready to support artists who wish to deal with these concerns? |