The course aims to explore the circumstances that hinder the regulation of contemporary cultural work in order to build an overview of common needs and demands necessary to counterbalance shared precarious working conditions such as irregular working hours, lack of contracts and non regulated wages, regardless of individual disciplines and expertise.
Through the review of historical trade unions and the analysis of new associations, as well as delving into the difficulties unveiled by new forms of work from the post-fordist era; the course not only wants to help students identify their personal standpoints in the work structure; but also shed light on how these individual positions can be linked to a common struggle and thus become an instrument of structural change and political agency through speculative collective practices in public space.
The course will offer practical tools to counteract precariousness in the cultural work sector, offering alternatives for improving both individual and collective conditions. The main objective is to intersect personal and shared viewpoints across different practices and disciplines, in order to establish a common ground fertile for political action. Through readings, guest lectures, workshops and actions in public space, the course will give the students an overview of different alternatives to the exploitation structures of the current system and creative practices towards self-regulation and organisation, aiming to build a space of both critique and solidarity.
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