Search Results for “work-life”
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Practising what we Preach
…since taking up my first permanent lecturing post on April Fools’ Day 2013. By exploiting the core contradiction in my own work-life (that I don’t live in the city where…
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The Glasgow Effect
…Effect follows in a tradition of the works by artists I really admire. Artists who resist the commodification of their work and artists who really push the boundaries of what…
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The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion
…of certain funding systems and I am working to set up a radical alternative: the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund, which will form the bulk of my workload in…
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The Glasgow Effect interview
…that anybody appreciates that actually I’m a ‘one woman band’. And I was listening to the phone-in you did earlier about the ‘work-life balance’ I’ve got a lot to say…
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Ethics: Extremism & Compromise
Ever since her early works, such as Eat 22 (for which she photographed everything she ate for a year), there has been a blurring between Ellie Harrison’s life and work,…
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Logger
How did you first become interested in recording movements of your everyday life? My first experiment in recording moments from my everyday life took place during a college field trip…
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Part-time
…to know each other before beginning work. It quickly transpired that we were following two of the other work pairs, with two of the other interviewees. One was the girl…
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Artworks that Clock Working Life
…anti-humanist nature of the worker-as-machine ethos of assembly lines. Unpacking the now entrenched notion of the 8-hour working day is Sam Meech’s monumental textile work, “Punchcard Economy.” The 5m x…
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The Art School Handbook
…not cause for such optimism. Academic Capitalism In ‘Pedagogic Projects: ‘How do you bring a classroom to life as if it were a work of art?’’ – a chapter in…
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Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom
…one. The secret, she taught us, was to have a strategy – to “plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan” (M. Thatcher n.d.); to think…
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Artists to present work outdoors and online to mark dates of cancelled Edinburgh Art Festival
…in lockdown, I started thinking about new ways of working and distributing work, and produced a performance piece (Calvin & Geppetto) as a live broadcast. My work for EAF will…
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Mobility: An Interview with Ellie Harrison
…the globalised lives we’re encouraged to live out online, especially as workers in the knowledge economy, living: “transient, itinerant and opportunistic lifestyles, chasing work around the world” (p.128). Through meticulously…
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Workers are Not Alone
…people working in isolated environments without a social network or workplace solidarity. “For them, there are no employee benefits like sick pay, holiday pay or anyone to regulate working hours….
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A Good Climate for Business
…freelance lifestyle that, by creating a social working environment and enforcing a ‘normal working day’, the Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed was attempting to challenge. Not only had my lack of…
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Welcome to the 15-minute city
…life. Workers want to work in places where land values are high, and live in a place where land value is cheaper. That needs to be factored in; workers will…
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Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed
“The meaning of life is work”. That was the world according to my grandpa Goronwy Daniel. Although I didn’t get to know him as well as I would have liked…
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After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison
…Working Life exhibit. I interviewed Ellie to learn how her former life as a data collector connects to her contemporary art practice. Stephen Fortune: Your Timelines work dates from when…
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Creating a cultural legacy: the National Museum of Roller Derby
…as a source material for your work, do you draw a line between your work and your real life? I’ve always battled with the with the life / work balance….
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The New Conservatism: Complicity & the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression
…– collective targeted refusals to work with or for new conservative organisations would mean that same work could be used to grow and bolster another sector, a truly egalitarian and…