Hi Catherine & all, I personally do not have an issue with anyone charging a small amount to get a project into gear. I have been involved in various shared ventures where the group throws money in the tin to get things happening, especially if there is no funding for the project out there. Which is more apparent these days, with the neoliberalist attack on humanities across the board.
And yes - I agree, why people are paying the money in the first place needs to be openly declared so others can make a decision on whether worth it. It also depends what the actual project is, people could be being payed for travel, fees for showing and all quite minimal. It does raise ideas around the concept of crreating a functional system which allows a kiinf levelling system, which produces a layout where every monetary interaction is seen as part of the process of doing the project. It would have to be small though, inputting the data would be quite demanding. wishing you well. marc > I'm glad people are mentioning it, because there seems to be a very large group of even otherwise economically and politically aware artists who have no problem with submission fees. While I understand the ideal that even guerilla administrators (curators, fundraisers, pr people, and the like) ought to be respected for their work, perhaps by payments of money or reimbursement for expenses... at the lowest level, one is paying a fee for a service or product that one can execute alone. And why? > > But when did it become ok to charge fees, in time? > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Except under very exceptional circumstances I don't submit for things that involve fees and I've backed out of shows when even a small one has been retrospectively raised. If people want to mount shows they should do the proper preparation and raise funds, preferably enough (although I appreciate this is entirely unrealistic) to pay a fee the artists they show > . > An interesting test is whether the person behind the call is salaried/in receipt of a fee... > > cheers > michael > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
