[oberlist] 1st ArtLeaks Working Assembly

Tue May 29 09:29:23 CEST 2012

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Date: 2012/5/28
Subject: 1st ArtLeaks Working Assembly
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*Dear Friends,*
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*I would be very happy if I see some of you at the end of this week and
beginning of the next one at ArtLeaks 1st Working Assembly in Berlin.
Details under the crushed diamond skull below! :)*
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*And please help me to distribute this further! *
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*Many thanks,*
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*vlad *
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*Image credits: Zampa di Leone*
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*1st ArtLeaks Working Assembly 2012*

ArtLeaks invites you to a public working assembly around the issues that
are at the core of the group’s mission - exposing instances of abuse,
corruption and exploitation in the art world. This is the official public
launch of our platform, which began to operate in September 2011, and will
be followed by a series of debates and workshops in the near future. These
present a unique opportunity to engage more directly with conditions of
cultural work that affect not only artists but creative workers in general:
those from the traditionally creative fields as well as those generally
involved in cultural production.

Members of ArtLeaks will present on the problematic politics of sponsorship
in contemporary culture, the intense exploitation of cultural labor, the
marketization of public space dedicated to so-called independent
initiatives, the appropriation of culture under the umbrella of
disreputable corporation and last but not least, what possibilities we may
envision for transversal alliances and activism against cases of abuse and
corruption of cultural managers and institutions.

We invite to the discussion all those of you who have experienced abuses of
your basic rights to be paid for your work, those who have struggled
against subjugation under the dictates of galleries who cater to a wealthy
minority, those who regularly take on other jobs to finance projects that
may never be realized. Join us in forwarding the conversation from a
critique of the status quo to formulating strategies on how to make real
changes in the system – changes that would benefit the vast majority of
creative workers, allowing them to unleash their full potential to bringing
about a better world.

To this end, the evening will be divided between a first part dedicated to
interventions by members of ArtLeaks, while in the second we would like to
engage the public in a conversation and brainstorm on solutions, models and
positions in response to concrete problems, concerns, urgencies.

Currently ArtLeaks is working on formulating a new regular publication
entirely dedicated to issues of cultural workers’ rights and related
struggles. This journal will be unique in focusing specifically on the
challenges we face in the field today, related to wide-spread mistreatment,
(self)exploitation and corruption and how these may be over-come through
strategies of self-organization, solidarity and collective action. ArtLeaks
will launch a call for papers at this public meeting.

ArtLeaks members that will facilitate this working assembly: Corina
Apostol, Vlad Morariu, David Riff, Dmitry Vilensky, Raluca Voinea. We will
have interventions via Skype from Vladan Jeremic and Société Réaliste.

Berlin, Sunday, June 3rd, 19:00h, Flutgraben

Address:
Am Flutgraben 3
12435 Berlin
fon:             +49 30 5321 9658
www.flutgraben.org

Directions to Flutgraben:
http://www.kunstfabrik.org/Anfahrt_Kunstfabrik_engl.pdf

*Then on Monday, June 4th, 8pm at West Germany in collaboration with
Interflugs, *ArtLeaks will co-host a workshop in which we would like to
focus on specific cases submitted to our platform, and what we may learn
from these instances of abuse and exploitation to create an international
front of solidarity to struggle for cultural workers’ rights. How can we
then challenge ourselves to re-imagine fairer relationships to
institutions, organizations, networks and economies involved in the
production and consumption of art and culture? In addressing these concerns
as a group, we will develop themes that will form the bases of ArtLeaks’
upcoming publication, a journal which will be entirely dedicated to
censorship, cultural workers’ rights and formulating strategies and goals
of organizing cultural workers.

ArtLeaks members: Corina Apostol, Vlad Morariu, David Riff, Dmitry
Vilensky, Raluca Voinea will facilitate the workshop in collaboration with
Interflugs and friends. Special thanks to West Germany.

Looking forward to your participation!

Time: Monday, June 4th, 8pm

Place: West Germany, Skalitzer Str. 133, S-Kottbusser Tor, Berlin

The workshop will be held in English.

About Interflugs: http://www.interflugs.de/en

About ArtLeaks:

http://art-leaks.org/
http://www.facebook.com/ArtLeaks

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Vlad Morariu

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