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Kopel Schwebel catalog essay draft

Dana Kopel (Google Docs) <comments-noreply@docs.google.com> To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

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While this employment structure makes a sort of sense here (to the extent that any existing structure of employment makes sense to anyone but employers, who design jobs to allow them the greatest possible profit, the most stolen labor)—an artwork within and as a workplace, with muddled channels of reporting, accountability, and compensation—the frequent misuse of independent contracting to enable employers to shirk their responsibilities to their workers has to shape our understanding of the project’s examination of work.

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:09 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
As a single sentence, this is dense and I am not following it with ease. Would it be possible to articulate these points together but with a reading-rest point or two?

Dana Kopel

• 8:49 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Totally, how does this read?
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)

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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
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)

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from one editor to another ;)
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)

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Only because I forgot to italicize it earlier lol

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Lauren Wetmore

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

Dana Kopel

• 8:59 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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I believe this should be a space, not a hyphen, no?

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Who’s the boss when your job demands such self-management that you internalize your lack of fair pay as your own fault?

Josh Schwebel

• 11:10 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
this is terrific!

Dana Kopel

• 8:59 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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When art workers justify our low wages and poor conditions, we internalize the logic of self-management and individual responsibility that helped create those conditions in the first place.

Josh Schwebel

• 11:10 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
yes! great.

Dana Kopel

• 8:59 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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how the state in turn absorbs and reproduces the logic of capital;

Josh Schwebel

• 11:12 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
bingo

Dana Kopel

• 9:03 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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in terms of

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Could this change to "in the scope of" or something similar, to more specifically indicate that what is no accident is that Josh is highlighting this fact?

Dana Kopel

• 8:45 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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independent contractor designation

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:11 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Thank you for taking up and so precisely articulating this point!

Dana Kopel

• 8:47 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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—-

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:20 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
I believe there is a missing word here.

Dana Kopel

• 8:52 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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What can we, as art workers, do about it?

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:30 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Yes! This needed a fine point put upon it - that the work implicates other cultural workers.

Dana Kopel

• 8:56 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Who are our fellow workers?

Lauren Wetmore

• 2:08 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
I think that this phrase could be lost as the point has been articulated.

Dana Kopel

• 9:02 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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If that’s who holds the power to either ease or escalate our exploitation then—in the absence of a boss—that’s one place to march.

Lauren Wetmore

• 2:29 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Way to stick this landing!!!

Dana Kopel

• 9:03 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Josh Schwebel

• 3:48 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Add: “it”

Dana Kopel

• 9:02 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:14 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Replace: “;” with “.”

Dana Kopel

• 8:54 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:14 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Add: “The independent contractor designation”

Dana Kopel

• 8:55 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:15 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Replace: “;” with “,”

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• 8:55 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:15 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:21 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Delete: “of art institutions”

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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:21 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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• 2:03 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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• 8:59 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 2:07 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
Replace: “I” with “However, i”

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• 9:01 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 2:07 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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• 9:02 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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• 2:10 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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• 9:00 PM, Oct 30 (CET)

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Lauren Wetmore

• 2:11 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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• 2:26 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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• 2:26 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
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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)

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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
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)

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Do you think this works now, with the previous paragraph clarified?

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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)

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Thank you! I knew I was forgetting something here

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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)

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I'm happy to try but kind of hitting a block with it right now—how would you want to see this expanded?

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Who’s the Boss?

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:50 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
This is such a deeply good title. I almost squealed when I first read it!

Dana Kopel

• 8:53 PM, Oct 26 (CEST)
I'm glad you like it! I'm usually terrible at titles but this one just came to me

Lauren Wetmore

• 7:33 PM, Nov 1 (CET)

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While this employment structure makes a sort of sense here (to the extent that any existing structure of employment makes sense to anyone but employers, who design jobs to allow them the greatest possible profit, the most stolen labor)—an artwork within and as a workplace, with muddled channels of reporting, accountability, and compensation—the frequent misuse of independent contracting to enable employers to shirk their responsibilities to their workers has to shape our understanding of the project’s examination of work.

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:09 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)
As a single sentence, this is dense and I am not following it with ease. Would it be possible to articulate these points together but with a reading-rest point or two?

Dana Kopel

• 8:49 PM, Oct 30 (CET)
Totally, how does this read?

Lauren Wetmore

• 7:33 PM, Nov 1 (CET)

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