Admin ⚙️
Culture Recognizes Labor
With Look at Art. Get Paid.
Friday, November 1, 6:30-8:30PM
FREE
This workshop invites you to join in a conversation about the cultural sector’s reckoning with labor and money. Drawing on our experiences of payment and non-payment, recognition and non-recognition, we will develop an alternative timeline of the history of the cultural sector. Cultural workers have pushed institutions to consider the ethics of who gets paid and why. Issues such as banning unpaid internships, mandatory artist fees, collective bargaining rights, protections for freelancers, and diversity, equity (or even decolonization), have entered into discussion and may even be on the table. The artists behind Look at Art. Get Paid., a socially engaged art project that pays people who don’t visit art museums to visit one as guest critics, will lead a reflection on our personal histories and experiences with these questions, before collaboratively mapping out a timeline of important milestones in the struggle for an equitable cultural industry that respects everyone’s labor.
Look at Art. Get Paid. (LAAGP) is a socially engaged program founded by Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu that centers people who don’t visit art museums as critics of the institution. Through cash payment, the program facilitates a reversal in flows of knowledge and capital, bringing new energy to discussions about equity in museums by investing in the expertise of those who haven’t been served by them. In 2019-2020, LAAGP is partnering with the Massachusetts Cultural Council to launch the pilot program via the Universal Participation Initiative (UP) across a cohort of three art museums in Massachusetts. http://www.lookatartgetpaid.org/
This workshop is part of the Admin ⚙️ series, a space for arts administrators to support one another, discuss pressing issues, and workshop new forms of cultural institutions. Admin does so by developing resources and organizing events that draw on personal experience and a collaborative spirit. Learn more at: http://www.admin.network/
CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. Service dogs are welcome. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single stall bathroom in the gallery. The space is not scent-free, but we do request that people attending come low-scent. The closest wheelchair accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square Station.