Difference between revisions of "The Substation Town Hall"
Line 23: | Line 23: | ||
* With a so-called lean team at hand, where do they draw the distinction between artists as practitioners and artists as part time staff? | * 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 Artistic Director, General manager, programmers, techs, operations, finance, everyone else) need to be receiving a pay at market rate. | * 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 Artistic Director, General manager, programmers, techs, operations, finance, everyone else) need to be receiving a pay at market rate. | ||
− | ** Question: What is the kind of of time and energy investment is the current AD going to be able to put in? ( | + | ** Question: What is the kind of of time and energy investment is the current AD going to be able to put in? (What are the other hats that he juggles? Is he planning on putting some other commitments aside to focus on The Substation? Will he disclose more on his other commitments and make a statement on this?) |
* At the interest of creating programmes with artists, how are artists compensated fairly? And how do we address issues of rights of the programme? | * At the interest of creating programmes with artists, how are artists compensated fairly? And how do we address issues of rights of the programme? | ||
'''Open season and sub season''' (Current AD has proposed a clear division within the year with an Open and Sub season as distinctly seperate) | '''Open season and sub season''' (Current AD has proposed a clear division within the year with an Open and Sub season as distinctly seperate) |
Revision as of 15:24, 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
Big picture / Meta-substation |
Operations
The day to day running of an art space |
Curatorial
Artistic decisions |
The Board's role needs to be clarified to the public
Ownership
|
Labour and Fair remuneration for artists and artworkers:
Open season and sub season (Current AD has proposed a clear division within the year with an Open and Sub season as distinctly seperate)
|
Process
The Public Voice
Artist Residency - how to define zones of contact?
Inclusivity of communities
Cabinet of Curiosities (Current AD has proposed a "cabinet of curiosities". details are still forthcoming)
Difficult questions - how to define how difficult?
Broad questions - how broad?
|