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Are states and philanthropists truly interested in paying artists for ‘doing what they love’? Or does the proliferation of quasi-UBI program

Seriously! ‘What will the excess artists do?’ In-work poverty needs to stop. Poverty needs to stop. If power could be more open to compassion. The state should stop excluding peoples from access to minimum ‘basic’ needs and selling this as state charity.

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Join us for drinks, performances, and dance to celebrate 10 years of W.A.G.E. RAGE and the official launch of WAGENCY! Performances by Amelia Bande Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade Keijaun Thomas Mariana Valencia Plus DJ JD Samson! Live WAGENCY demo with artists, curators, and institutional directors! W.A.G.E. T-shirt screening station: BYOT or get one from us! W.A.G.E. Wo/manifesto posters! Signed copies of Andrea Fraser's 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics! Sliding scale, $20 suggested donation Limited capacity: tickets and RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wage-10-year-womanniversary-party-tickets-48942071052 Thursday, September 20 8-11 pm Artists Space 55 Walker Street New York, NY 10013

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At noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s board of trustees to discuss the labor conditions at its Abu Dhabi site. At the appointed time, members of the collective threw leaflets inspired by the current On Kawara exhibition from the museum’s upper levels and the protesters articulated their demands through a human microphone chant.

BREAKING: May Day Occupation at Guggenheim Closes Museum #GuggOccupied

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wo/manifesto

W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) works to draw attention to economic inequalities that exist in the arts, and to resolve them.

W.A.G.E. has been formed because we, as visual + performance artists and independent curators, provide a work force.

W.A.G.E. recognizes the organized irresponsibility of the art market and its supporting institutions, and demands an end of the refusal to pay fees for the work we’re asked to provide: preparation, installation, presentation, consultation, exhibition and reproduction.

W.A.G.E. refutes the positioning of the artist as a speculator and calls for the remuneration of cultural value in capital value.

W.A.G.E. believes that the promise of exposure is a liability in a system that denies the values of our labor.

As an unpaid labor force within a robust art market from which others profit greatly, W.A.G.E. recognizes an inherent exploitation and demands compensation.

W.A.G.E. calls for an address of the economic inequalities that are prevalent, and proactively preventing the art worker’s ability to survive within the greater economy.

W.A.G.E. advocates for developing an environment of mutual respect between artist and institution.

W.A.G.E. demands payment for making the world more interesting.

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Founded in 2008, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is a New York-based activist group whose advocacy is currently focused on regulating the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions and establishing a sustainable model for best practices between artists and the institutions that contract their labor. source

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"The most thought provoking of the presenters [at Charge Practicum] was Alison Gerber, a Yale PhD sociologist who studies how artists value their practices. An enthusiastic lecturer, she revealed some of her surprising findings in non-technical terms, providing more new insights into the artist/money relationship in her forty minutes than the rest of the weekend’s presenters combined. Essentially, she said, art is in a transition similar to that happening in politics and childcare, where professionalized paid workers work side by side with unpaid volunteers, doing many of the same jobs, some for love, others for money. The tension between these two views of the proper motivation for art work gives rise to the uncertainties, inequities, and anxieties that the Charge Practicum tried to address."

BILL DAVENPORT, Glasstire.com

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W.A.G.E. Certification Program Launches

Earlier this month Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) rolled out their new W.A.G.E. Certification program: a voluntary program initiated and operated by W.A.G.E. that publicly recognizes non-profit arts organizations demonstrating a history of, and commitment to, voluntarily paying artist fees that meet a minimum payment standard.

Read more about certification --> http://bit.ly/1s8QpkO

Read Issue 5.4 / Valuing Labor in the Arts --> http://bit.ly/1tfKvn3

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