Play on Non-Work
XMinisterstvo kultury ČR
Artists
happening
pink application
Date
Venue
Maltézské square, Prague 1
We have an inkling of what is play and what is work, but we are less aware of where the boundaries between them lie. We work, but forms of work are taking on increasingly more fluid boundaries, where the performance of one’s occupation blends with the time invested in one’s professional and personal development or in sufficiently fully-fledged procrastination.
We have an inkling of what is play and what is work, but we are less aware of where the boundaries between them lie. We work, but forms of work are taking on increasingly more fluid boundaries, where the performance of one’s occupation blends with the time invested in one’s professional and personal development or in sufficiently fully-fledged procrastination.
These are general long-standing attributes of work in the services sector. In our country, the non-institutional cultural sector, particularly within the context of live art, is at a special stage in its development. Many organisations originally established as artist’s run spaces are long past their puberty and have grown into mature high-quality brands that have professionalised so much that their activities are at a level that is comparable with the international scene. Yet, in terms of job performance ratings, these are often monopolies rather than pay-outs. We therefore cannot be sure when our exhaustion is due to working on the roundabout of planning and applying for grants and submitting the accounting settlements for them.
We are a group of women providing a cultural service known as the Fotograf Festival. We are graduates of art schools. We are a precarious creative force, we work on the basis of part-time employment contracts and trade licences. We take advantage of a home-office option and sometimes use traditional office space. We are our own tyrannical bosses and we want to have unambitious comfortable relationships.
