Between avant-garde and catastrophe

Employment conditions for women in art and culture

Conference on November 4, 2005, 11 - 21h

Old City Hall Linz, 4th floor

Invitation card for "A-TYPICAL WOMAN II"

Women artists and cultural workers are particularly affected by the flexibilization and precarization of society as a whole. Work in the arts and cultural sector is characterized by a high degree of identification with one's own work, but at the same time by an increasingly massive exclusion from the social safety net. The neoliberal reorganization of society finds a willing field of experimentation in art and culture.

Recognized experts will discuss the causes and individual and collective strategies on this topic. Four workshops offer the opportunity to find out about practically relevant topics such as social insurance for artists, tax law, funding opportunities and atypical forms of employment.

Daily schedule:

Moderation - Mag.a Rosa Reitsamer, malmoe

• 11:00 a.m. Welcome - Ursula Kolar, FIFTITU%
• 11:30h - 13:00h Opening lecture: "Money or life, life or culture. On precarious living conditions"
  Mag.a Eva Blimlinger, University of Applied Arts Vienna - followed by a moderated discussion
• 13:00h - 14:00h break (lunch buffet included in the contribution)
• 14:00h - 17:00h Four GO-IN-WORKSHOPS with experts -
  - Social insurance, social insurance for artists
  Mag.a Daniela Koweindl, IG Fine Arts
  - Tax law issues
  Monika Manzl, tax consultant
  - Forms of atypical employment, earnings limits, employee rights
  DSA Sandra Stern, GPA work@flex
  - Information networks on funding opportunities for art and culture
  Andrea Mayer-Edoloeyi, cultural worker, FIFTITU%, KUPF
• 17:00h - 17:30h break (coffee + cake)
• 17:30h - 18:45h Lecture: "Marching separately - striking together. Strategies and alliance building in the arts and culture sector"
  Mag.a Dr.in Juliane Alton, IG Kultur Vorarlberg - followed by a moderated discussion
• 18:45h - 19:00h break
• 19:00h - 21:00h "Kamera läuft", a video work by the group kpD/small postfordist drama on working and
  Living conditions of female cultural producers - followed by a moderated discussion

  Small post-Fordist drama / kpD - Kamera läuft