We talk about: organizing artists, participatory performance, Dionysus in 69, audience co-creation of a work, how artists are both similar to and different from other workers, the conflicted class identity of artists, building artist power as a labor force, guaranteed basic income, Daniel reads a manifesto, and much more…

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Daniel Park is a theatre and performance artist, organizer for economic justice in the cultural sector, and the cooperative business manager and a worker-owner of Obvious Agency. Obvious Agency makes playable theatre, spreads democratic and cooperative practice, and organizes arts workers and workplaces. Their mission is: Play hard. Work together. Get free.

https://www.obvious-agency.com/

@ObviousAgencyCoop 

RESOURCES

Ben Davis, 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

Lucy Lippard, The Pink Glass Swan: Upward and Downward Mobility in the Art World

Forum on Working Class Artists in America

Voices for Creative New YorkCultural Workers Organize

Dionysus in 69 (video) (Richard Schechner/Performance Group)

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