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Survival Strategies for Cultural Workers | Event this Wednesday:
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Discussion event:
Survival Strategies for Cultural Workers
Wednesday 20 February, 6.30–8pm
Guest speakers: Bonnie Fortune & Brett Bloom
The Survival Strategies meetings are informal open sessions for cultural workers to meet and exchange on the challenges they face, and strategies they have developed, in order to deal with the specificities of labour in the arts and cultural sector. In particular in relation to, but not limited to, parenting. We organise the meetings around guest speakers, recommended readings or both.
Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune have been collaborating since 2006 on a variety of projects, including their own domestic partnership. Their projects include the Library of Radiant Optimism for Let's Remake the World and currently, Mythological Quarter. The Library of Radiant Optimism gathered 'how to' books from the counterculture of the late 60s and early 70s. The Mythological Quarter is both an online and offline platform for researching and discussing art, ecology, the place where we live, and domestic projects including how to balance being an artist and a parent, through images, interviews, and texts. Brett is also part of Temporary Services with Marc Fischer, and Salem Collo-Julin. Based in Copenhagen, Chicago, and Philadelphia, they produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications, they see distinctions between art practice and other creative human endeavours as
irrelevant.
Bonnie and Brett's talk will be based around their recent essay for Andrea Francke's project ISP Manual, covering the Library of Radiant Optimism project, Ken Isaac's Living Structures and their application in the home, and balancing creative work with parenthood
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