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Janie Nicoll and Ailie Rutherford present

Who Can Afford To Be An Artist: Strategies for Survival

29 Apr 2018
All ages
FREE but ticketed

Who Can Afford To Be An Artist: Strategies for Survival continuing the debate on artists’ precarity and how this affects the lack of diversity in the arts.

Speakers / provokers include:


Sekai Machache– Yon Afro

UNIT * Daniel Simpkins and Penny Whitehead

Zara Kitson

Mandy Macintosh

Lauren Printy Currie (SAU)

with discussion hosted by Janie Nicoll and Ailie Rutherford

Following this event, join us for the premier screening of new film Love and Lithium by Henry Coombes:

Henry Coombes | Love and Lithium at 2pm

Following the In Kind event the screening of new film by Henry Coombes, Love and Lithium will take place at Platform. For more information, follow the link here 
This is a free but ticketed event.

HEADING TO PLATFORM FROM GLASGOW CITY CENTRE? 
There will be a return bus (£4) from Trongate 103 (103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD, United Kingdom) to the In Kind event - please email info@platform-online.co.uk to book a space or for more information

Additional info

​This event coincides In Kind, a collaborative action research project by visual artists, Janie Nicoll and Ailie Rutherford, examining the “below the water-line” economy of Glasgow International 2018, charting the unseen, unaccounted for efforts that enable ‘Glasgow International’ to take place; exploring the support in kind, unpaid labour, mutual favours, gifts and volunteer hours that go into making GI an apparent success. This project will measure the huge outpouring of creative energy and generosity normally unseen and undocumented, illustrating how artists support the creation of not just their own work but also the work of others.

Throughout GI the artists will operate from a mobile unit to be situated at CCA, Platform and Trongate 103, acting as both a focus point to collate data and a multi-media visual display unit. The mobile unit will be a catalyst for conversation, discussion and a series of curated events that will interrogate the themes of artist precocity, and the sustainability of the sector.

​For more information about the research project and the IN KIND events happening across Glasgow International visit the project website.

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