Art Struggles: Confronting Internships and Unpaid Labour in Contemporary Art

This article explores the practices of recently formed and mainly UK-based art workers’ collectives against unpaid internships and abusive work. The modes through which these collectives perform resistance involve activist tactics of boycotting, site-specific protests, counter-guides, and whistlebl...

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Published in:	tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Main Author:	Panos Kompatsiaris
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group 2015-09-01
Subjects:	Art Labour Contemporary Art Internships Art Activism Labour Turn
Online Access:	https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/613

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