Writing

Two Paradoxes, One Reversal and an Impasse: On Organizing the Labor of Artists  

_{A text published in Blackout 0: Art Labour, at the invitation of Art Work(ers), a research project by ECAV / Ecole Cantonale d'Art du Valais, November 2017.}

 

Why Labor Now

The announcement of seven newly certified organizations and some post-inauguration thoughts on why art institutions must confront both social and economic injustice. Circulated February 13, 2017.

 

What W.A.G.E. is Working On

^{An update on the development of WAGENCY, posted on wageforwork.com on January 19, 2017.}

 

An Open Letter to 'Artist'

^{An introduction to WAGENCY, circulated November 2016.}

 

What is Wrong with the Art World

^{A text commissioned (for free) by ARTnews in August 2016 in answer to the question: What is wrong with the art world and how would you fix it?}

 

An Open Letter to the New Museum

^{Written and circulated in response to the museum's announcement of expansion plans in May, 2016.}

 

W.A.G.E.N.C.Y.

^{An email exchange with the New Museum, W.A.G.E.'s contribution to Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, 2015. Published in 2016.}

 

On Value: Wages for Housework & W.A.G.E.

^{Written for and presented at We (Not I) at Artists Space, NY in October 2015, as part of a roundtable with Silvia Federici, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, and Melanie Gilligan, facilitated by Marina Vishmidt.}

 

On Residency Programs

^{A text written for and presented at The Alliance of Artists Communities Annual Conference in October 2015, representing W.A.G.E.'s initial thoughts on guidelines for compensation within residency programs.}

 

Online Digital Artwork and the Status of the "Based-In" Artist

^{A text commissioned for SUPERCOMMUNITY, e-flux journal's contribution to the 56th Venice Biennale, 2015.}

 

On Merit

^{A text written for and read at The Artist As Debtor: Art in the Age of Speculative Capitalism in New York and at Public Assets: Small-Scale Arts Organisations and the Production of Value in London, 2015.}

On Charity

^{A speech given at a dinner at the Museum fur Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt on March 1, 2013 as part of artist Andrea Büttner's exhibition.}

 

W.A.G.E. FAQs

^{An illustrated PDF, #17 in Printed Matter's Artists & Activists series, published by Printed Matter, Inc., 2012.}

 

Dear Board of Directors 

^{How to announce to your board that your organization is going to pay artist fees, 2012.}

 

Dear Dad 

^{An intervention at the New Museum (all ethics have left the building and mother is turning in her grave), 2010.}

 

Dear Arts Administrator 

^{An open letter to the institution from W.A.G.E., 2009.}

 

No Soul For Sale 1 

^{As requested by X Initiative for publication in Charley Magazine, W.A.G.E. 'reviews' our participation in No Soul For Sale, 2009. No response, never published.}

 

No Soul For Sale 2 

^{As requested by X Initiative for publication in Charley Magazine, W.A.G.E. 'reviews' our participation in No Soul For Sale, 2009. No response, never published.}