How do #artists #work today? What kinds of #roles do they #occupy, have these roles changed over the years, and how does this impact the ecology of art? Has the #pluralism of art given way to a pluralism of roles that artists may occupy? What are the contemporary conditions of #labour producing this new state of affairs, and what #reskilling does it ask of artists? Or, by contrast, what does it mean to sustain a #lifelong #commitment to another kind of #practice, another kind of #conversation? How does familiarity with another #discipline—whether that of the #autodidact or the professionally trained—influence an artist’s practice, and shift how their work is conceptualised, made, and received? These are some of the questions that led to #TheArtistAs, a #book that seeks to understand how artists move through the world, and how that movement might necessitate other roles to pursue a project, a position, a politics, or a practice. With contributions by #BrookAndrew, #WalterBenjamin, #HemanChong, #EkaterinaDegot, #HalFoster, #HelenHughes, #HelenJohnson, #IsabelLewis, #AdamLinder, #SuhailMalik, #TaraMcDowell, #EmilyPethick, #TerrySmith, #CeciliaVicuña, and #TirdadZolghadr. (at Institute of Modern Art)