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Kopel Schwebel catalog essay draft

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Josh Schwebel

• 3:50 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
One could also mention here CARFAC organizing that originated in London Ontario, or the agitating for the Independent Artist’s Union

Josh Schwebel

• 3:51 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
For Canadian examples

Dana Kopel

• 9:30 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
Thank you! I knew I was forgetting something here

Josh Schwebel

• 9:48 AM, Oct 31 (CET)
😃

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Valcourt Synnott

Josh Schwebel

• 11:09 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
I think that this gets a bit muddy because the project is a microcosm and imprecise mirror for the artist-run structure in which it is embedded. I think a lot of these questions should more accurately be oriented around Teresa's employment than around the Employee's, but I don't know exactly how to resolve this without unpicking the core of the text...

Dana Kopel

• 9:15 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
That makes a lot of sense, I reworked this paragraph to try to preserve the distinctions between both of their work and make clear their different but intertwined exploitation within this system—let me know what you think of the revision

Josh Schwebel

• 9:44 AM, Oct 31 (CET)
this is so much better! It is more accurate to the situation, and therefore more politically galvanizing. thank you!

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:54 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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how government arts funding is politicized and follows capital

Josh Schwebel

• 11:11 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
this insight that govt funding is pushing a capitalist agenda is so clear and on the nose, and something I have been sensing but not able to just say straight forwardly. I am so inspired to see it written down because it makes things so clear. I would love to see it expanded more because it makes your conclusion so apt, but maybe it doesn’t need greater emphasis.

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Since part of an artist-run centre employee’s job

Josh Schwebel

• 11:23 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
here I am talking about Teresa

Dana Kopel

• 9:20 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
Do you think this works now, with the previous paragraph clarified?

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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The interlinked architectures of independent contracting, project-based funding, and privatization

Josh Schwebel

• 11:23 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
can this be expanded?

Dana Kopel

• 9:50 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
I'm happy to try but kind of hitting a block with it right now—how would you want to see this expanded?

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Joshua Schwebel, “Employee first-person voice project description,” Google doc shared with the author.

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:59 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
@privatejosh@gmail.com Just a note that we will have to keep on eye on how to cite this quotation in relation to your edits of that document. We can chat offline and later. I just want to flag it up here.

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:53 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Uber, Lyft, and Doordash spent $200 million in California last year on a restrictive ballot measure, known as Proposition 22

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:26 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
As an anecdote, my partner was voting in California when this was on the ballot and we felt that the wording for this proposition was extremely misleading, so as to coerce voters into voting for it even if they didn't support it.

Dana Kopel

• 8:56 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
As a new California voter this doesn't surprise me at all, there's at least one measure on the ballot now that does the same thing

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:54 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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.; The independent contractor designation

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:17 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
I've added this as a suggestion for breaking up a sentence that would benefit from a break, but I realise that it now means the "independent contractor" is being repeated too much. Is there another strategy for creating a pause in this sentence that doesn't result in this repetition?

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:54 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Clynton Lowry, “The Ecstasy and Exploitation of Art Handling,” interview by Kressent Pottinger, New Labor Forum, September 2017, https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2017/09/29/the-ecstasy-and-exploitation-of-art-handling/.

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:19 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Chef's kiss to this citation structure! Thank you for taking such care with these.

Dana Kopel

• 8:58 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
from one editor to another ;)

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:54 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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cum

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:34 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
I am uncertain about style in this case. Why is it italicised here and not in paragraph 3?

Dana Kopel

• 8:58 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
Only because I forgot to italicize it earlier lol

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:54 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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the logic

Lauren Wetmore

• 2:05 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Would it be helpful to qualify the logic as "mistaken" (or other similar word) here?

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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she

Josh Schwebel

• 9:39 AM, Oct 31 (CET)
it is unclear whether this refers to Teresa or Camille

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:52 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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both internalize the responsibility

Josh Schwebel

• 9:45 AM, Oct 31 (CET)
perfect

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:54 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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What we need is not self-interest but solidarity

Josh Schwebel

• 9:47 AM, Oct 31 (CET)
amen.

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Michael DiRisio, “Barriers+Burnout: Arts Labour and Collective Action,” Kapsula 2 (September 2014), 20, http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/948/1/KAPSULA_NFS_3of3.pdf.

Josh Schwebel

• 9:51 AM, Oct 31 (CET)
funnily enough, I am pretty sure that Michael is Teresa's partner...

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:45 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Delete space
Add: “-”

Dana Kopel

• 8:59 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
I believe this should be a space, not a hyphen, no?

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:54 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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Josh Schwebel

• 9:50 AM, Oct 31 (CET)
Add: “,”

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Jan 29 (CET)

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