Reading List
We encourage you to browse through these important related publications
Documents from the Art Workers Coalition 1969 Open Hearing, which took place at the School of Visual Arts in New York City
An Anti-Catalog, Artists Meeting for Cultural change, 1977
Gregory G. Sholette, Political Art Documentation and Distribution: A 1980’s Activist Art and Networking Collective
Andrea Fraser, “How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction”, 1994
Gregory G. Sholette, How to best serve the New Global Contemporary Art Matrix, 2000
Simon Sheikh, Representation, Contestation and Power: The Artist as Public Intellectual, 2004
Precarias a la deriva, Adrift through the circuits of feminized precarious work, 2004
Katya Sander, Criticizing Institutions?, 2004
Lia Perjovschi and Dan Perjovschi, Detective Draft – The Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, 2005
Angela Mitropoulos, Precari-Us?, 2005
Suely Rolnik, The Geopolitics of Pimping, 2006
Suely Rolnik, The Body’s Contagious Memory: Lygia Clark’s Return to the Museum, 2007
Artists in the Workforce Study put together in 2008 by The National Endowment for the Arts (USA)
David Riff, Criticality or Truth? , 2008
Anny Shaw, Anti-capitalist work of art proves “too political,” 2009
Radical Change in Culture, A Manifesto, 2009
Guerrilla Girls, The Guerrilla Girls’ Guide to Behaving Badly(Which You Have to Do Most of the Time in the World as We Know It), 2010
Marina Gržinić, An Analysis of the exhibition “Gender Check – Masculinity and Femininity in the Art of Eastern Europe,” MUMOK, Vienna, November 2009/February 2010
JJ Charlesworth, Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun’s Experiment in Deinstitutionalisation, 2010
Isabell Lorey, Becoming Common: Precarization as Political Constituting, 2010
Keti Chukhrov, Towards the Space of the General: On Labor beyond Materiality and Immateriality, 2010
Rena Rädle, From Soros Realism to Creative Class, 2010
Free Labour, Enforced Education and Precarity by The Carrotworkers’ Collective, 2011
Sarah Witt, Dear Levi, I like your pants, but…, 2011
Over 130 International Artists Call for Guggenheim Boycott over Migrant Labor Exploitation, 2011
Reflections on “In the Engine Room: Working Conditions for Cultural Workers” debate, Belgrade, 2011
Beral Madra, Why the Censorship of Azjerbaijan’s Pavilion Shames the Venice Biennale, 2011
Dorian Batycka, The Venice Biennale: Structuring Subjectivities, History, Politics and Art, 2011
Corina L. Apostol interviewed by Tafter.it, ArtLeaks, when art rebels against itself!, 2011 (in Italian)
Dara Greenwald, Does Corporate Culture STILL Suck?, 2011
Bezna editorial collective, The Dark Side of Art and Its Autonomy, 2011
Whitney Kimball, Wall Street Occupennial, 2011
Claudia Firth, Waving or Drowning, 2011
Maria Vishmidt interviews W.A.G.E. (Working Artists in the Greater Economy), in LABOUR Magazine, 2011
Hito Steyerl, Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy, 2010
Hans Abbing, Notes on the Exploitation of Artists, presented at The Labour of the Multitude? The Political Economy Of Social Creativity organized by the Free/Slow University of Warsaw, 2011
Gregory Sholette, Resources about art and labor including historical efforts by artists to gain more security and better working conditions, available at Dark Matter Archives
Yates McKee, The Arts Of Occupation, 2011
Milena Placentile, Creative Resistance Beyond Survival, 2012
Naomi Hennig, From Art Strike to Human Strike: Subjects are Leaving the Factory, 2012
Evgenia Abramova, On Art Workers’ Labour Conditions in Moscow, 2013
Evgenia Abramova, “Manager” v.s. “Girl,” 2013
Lise Soskolne, Who Owns a Vacant Lot? Orthodoxy vs. Culture Industry, 2013
Tatiana Bazzichelli & Geoff Cox, eds., Disrupting Business: Art & Activism in Times of Financial Crisis, 2013
Octavian Esanu, ed., Critical Machines: Exhibition and Conference Publication, 2014
steirischer herbst & Florian Malzacher, eds., Truth is Concrete Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics, 2014
Vladan Jeremić & Rena Rädle, eds., Reclaiming Realism, Open Systems Journal, 2014
Vesna Vukovic & Una Bauer, eds., Art&Money, Frakcija #68/69, 2014
Artists for Palestine UK, Resisting bullying and censorship, 2015
Minna Henriksson, Erik Krikortz and Airi Triisberg, eds., Art Workers – Material Conditions and Labour Struggles in Contemporary Art Practice, 2015
Vladan Jeremic, Rena Raedle, eds., A Real Work of Art – art, work and solidarity structures, RAM Galleri, 2015
Georgios Papadopoulos, Politics as Art against the Art of Economics; Reflections on the Skills of Economy Sessions, Helsinki, 2017
do women have to be naked to get into the met museum?
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dont forget the guerilla girls, fighting discrimination with facts, humour and fake fur
Thanks for the reminder, shusha ! The Guerrilla Girls are very relevant to our cause – Corina
I can already tell that’s gonna be super hlefpul.
I might be betiang a dead horse, but thank you for posting this!
Thank you for the suggestions – please keep them coming and contribute to our debates – Corina
What liberating knwlodege. Give me liberty or give me death.
Hey, don’t forget the following:
Paul Werner. Museum, Inc. Inside the Global Art World. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2005.
– Musée et Cie: Globalisation de la Culture. L’Harmattan, 2009.
– Museo, S.p.A. La globalizzazione della cultura. Johan & Levi, 2009.
– The Red Museum. Art, economics and the ends of capital. The Orange Press, 2010.
http://theorangepress.com/publications