This is the first episode in the series Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organisation of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.
For this episode, we are welcoming Kuba Szreder. Kuba is a lecturer in art theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a freelance curator. He co-founded the Free/Slow University of Warsaw and the Office for Postartistic Practices. The main topic of our conversation is Kuba's book ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World.
Art in Permacrisis is a podcast of the Institute of Network Cultures and Caradt. It is hosted by Candela Cubria and Sepp Eckenhaussen. Tech by Tommaso Campagna. Editing by Giulia Timis.
Links
Kuba’s book, ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World, published by Manchester University Press in 2021: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526161321
Kuba Szreder in conversation with Pierre d’Alancaizes about ABC of the Projectariat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABwlg5-AQMU&ab_channel=Pierred%E2%80%99Alancaisez
INC longform ‘Art at Work: The Role of Internet Memes in the Postartistic Age’ by Agnieszka Antkowiak: https://networkcultures.org/longform/2023/06/21/art-at-work-the-role-of-internet-memes-in-the-postartistic-age
The Office for Postartistic Services: https://beczmiana.pl/bup/bup-in-english
Duckrabbits.com, the archive of postartistic practices that have taken place in Poland since 2015: https://krolikokaczki.pl/en
The repository of the Anti-Fascist Year in Poland: https://rokantyfaszystowski.org/en
The Museum of Arte Util: https://www.arte-util.org
Plausible Artworlds by Basecamp: https://www.plausibleartworlds.org
Documenta 15 & Lumbung: https://documenta-fifteen.de/en
The Postartisic congress in Berlin June 6-9 at the Floating University: https://konteksty.to/2024
