DISPATCH – Welcome to Art and Labor!

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DISPATCH - Welcome to Art and Labor!
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We had a tweet go viral! Artnet published a pseudoscience garbage article claiming that artists’ brain chemistry causes them to not what to be paid for their work, we told them to fuck off with that noise. This episode breakdown the discourse, and get into plenty of tangents along the way!! This episode was recorded on the streets of Chelsea and Bushwick. Later doodle-bitches!

Welcome new listeners! Art and Labor focuses on the on-going struggle to survive as an art or cultural worker. We chronicle the stories of social justice organizing within the arts, and believe in centering the human cost of the “art world” and advocate for fair labor practices for artists, assistants, fabricators, docents, interns, registrars, janitors, writers, editors, curators, guards, performers, and anyone doing work for art & cultural institutions.

Helpful links that provide context for this episode:

the viral tweet/article: https://twitter.com/ArtandLaborPod/status/1016154656265965568

more responses:  https://twitter.com/i/moments/1016323997443780609

follow Nicky Flowers: https://twitter.com/yiffpolice

clothes are complicated: https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/mimi-thi-nguyen-fashion-design-01-clothing-and-politics-the-appearance-of-the-public-body

visit this show this summer: http://www.c24gallery.com/exhibitions-detail/from-the-cradle-to-the-boat-curated-by-tommy-hartung

Episode 6 – A Drunken Intro to Hito Steyerl

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Episode 6 - A Drunken Intro to Hito Steyerl
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HITO STEYERL DANK MEME STASH! Hey ya’ll, we’ve got some FEELINGS this episode. Half this episode is venting about some strange/shitty art world jobs we’ve had. We also mention decolonization practice, Walter Benjamin, cultural Marxism, and Imperfect Cinema as a foundation for Steyerl’s In Defense of Poor Image. Accessibility is the key word of this ep. It’s extremely hot in New York City! It’s punishingly hard to focus. We drank a couple cold ones and left the AC on so this is a long ep with a little rumbling sound in the background. I’m not going to apologize, we needed that AC to pod.

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You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com

In Defense of Poor Image https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/

I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dreamed-dream-politics-age-mass-art-production/

How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651

For an imperfect cinema by Julio García Espinosa https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html

Follow them: http://www.decolonizethisplace.org/

Ron Paul is a shithead https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ron-paul-blames-racist-tweet-on-staffer_us_5b3ada27e4b07b827cba060b

Fuck this stork https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/29/world/europe/ap-eu-poland-spendthrift-stork.html

I found this randomly while looking for images, I wanna read it: http://reallifemag.com/poor-meme-rich-meme/

 

Episode 4 – Artwashing and Soho

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Call us Anna Delvey ’cause we’re delving into Soho. We get into the early days of some of the most powerful people in the art market, and how their greed has gone on to destroy neighborhoods and countless lives. This episode we try to demystify the “Art World” to better understand its influence. Art has a complicated role in gentrification; the Grayson Perry cartoon about artist neighborhoods has resonated with millions of people in its second life as an internet meme. We tie the idea of Artwashing to precarious economic situations exemplified by Richard Florida and Mistressvilles.

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You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com

DISPATCH – MoMA Local 2110’s Party on the Pavement

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DISPATCH - MoMA Local 2110's Party on the Pavement
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WE CAN’T EAT PRESTIGE! We joined the picket line in front of the Museum of Modern Art to greet the guests at their annual fundraiser “Party in the Garden” The MoMA workers organized their own “Party on the Pavement” to amplify their demand for a fair labor contract. We say hi to our friends Jeff and Maria, and learn what it’s like at the bargaining table. Email the MoMA director, let him know what you think: glenn_lowry@moma.org

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For photos and more info check out these links:

https://twitter.com/MoMA_Local2110

https://www.instagram.com/momalocal2110/

https://twitter.com/wetted_ashes

You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com.

Episode 3 – Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and Women Artists in Revolution

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Beep beep!! New Art and Labor here! Your favorite podcast focusing on the on-going struggle to survive as an art or cultural worker. Hosted by O.K. Fox and Lucia Love. This episode we fill you in even more social justice activism happening in the late sixties/early seventies. We talk proto Guerrilla Girls, and we trace the legacy of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s pressure on The Met, MoMA, and The Whitney to current protests of The Brooklyn Museum. We despair about the continued lack of representation in these institutions, and ponder the effectiveness of identity-based strategies. We also get into some contextual tangents about Art & Language, The Fox, and Artists Meeting For Cultural Change.

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Much is pulled from the book “Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City” by Alan W. Moore published by Autonomedia in 2011 and “Exhibiting Authenticity: The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s Protests of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968-71” by Caroline V. Wallace published in Art Journal in 2015.

For photos and more info check out these links:

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20908

https://hyperallergic.com/374428/three-lessons-from-artists-protests-of-the-whitney-museum-in-the-1960s-70s/

https://aperture.org/blog/radical-black-women-changed-art-world/

https://blackartinamerica.com/index.php/2017/07/13/harlem-on-my-mind-50-years-later-would-reggie-still-be-protesting/

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/12/archives/women-artists-demonstrate-at-whitney.html

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/we_wanted_a_revolution

You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com.

Episode 2 – Black Mask aka Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers

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Welcome back to Art & Labor! A podcast focusing on the on-going struggle to survive as an art or cultural worker. Hosted by O.K. Fox and Lucia Love. This episode we get into Black Mask aka Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers aka “The Family”, a radical anarchist group led by the artist Ben Morea. We also get into some fun little rants about Dada, The Situationists, and Warhol.

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Much is pulled from the book “Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City” by Alan W. Moore published by Autonomedia in 2011.

For photos and more info check out these links:

https://situationnisteblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/black-mask-issues-1-6-8-9-1966-68/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/arts/design/the-artist-ben-morea-returns-to-the-site-of-the-revolution.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Id_5HmIok

https://i.imgur.com/JRxKttl.jpg

You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com.

Episode 1 – Art Workers Coalition and the Guerrilla Art Action Group

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Episode 1 - Art Workers Coalition and the Guerrilla Art Action Group
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Welcome to Art & Labor! A podcast focusing on the on-going struggle to survive as an art or cultural worker. Hosted by O.K. Fox and Lucia Love. This episode we discuss two groups formed during the wide student and worker unrest that characterized 1968.

Follow our Twitter for listener notes: https://twitter.com/artandlaborpod

Much is pulled from the book “Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City” by Alan W. Moore published by Autonomedia in 2011.

For photos and more info check out these links: http://www.primaryinformation.org/art-workers-coalition/ http://janvanraay.com/photos/
https://hyperallergic.com/tag/art-workers-coalition/
http://www.global-activism.de/directory/guerrilla-art-action-group

You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com.