art but fair

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art but fair is the name of an international movement that seeks to achieve fair working conditions and reasonable salaries in the performing arts and music . The organization consists of three mutually coordinated, non-profit associations in Germany , Austria and Switzerland . The movement emerged from a cultural initiative founded by musical producer Johannes Maria Schatz on February 19, 2013. The German association is based in Hamburg , the Swiss association is based in Zurich and the Austrian association is based in Vienna .

history

The Facebook page "The saddest & most outrageous artist fees and audition experiences" quickly met with a great response from performing artists. Artists of all branches began to publish their experiences, with a focus on the working conditions, according to which a large part of the artists a financial livelihood from artistic activity alone was almost impossible despite years of training and appropriate qualifications. The first media reports about the “Artists Wailing Wall” appeared in the Berliner Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau .

The Facebook page received support in March 2013 from the Austrian mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman , who made grievances in the “upper league” of the cultural industry public. In particular, she criticized the cancellation of the rehearsal fees for several weeks of opera productions at the Salzburg Festival by Artistic Director Alexander Pereira , tight scheduling regardless of the physical stress of the singers, incompetence and corruption among the decision-makers, etc. When she invited the artists to the “Revolution "Called, many media took up the topic (e.g. Opernnetz, Salzburger Nachrichten, Die Welt, Wiener Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Profil, Kurier, arts journal blog" Slipped Disc ", ORF, BR, WDR, and NDR).

Kulman's public criticism was reinforced by her opera colleagues Laura Aikin , Marlis Petersen , Markus Brück , Thomas Moser , Jonas Kaufmann and Simon Keenlyside . The international agent Germinal Hilbert , the artistic directors Barrie Kosky , Peter Jonas , Ioan Holender , numerous cultural journalists and the psychiatrist Déirdre Mahkorn , head of the first German “stage fright ambulance”, agreed that “the diseased system harms the artists”. A broad discussion is now underway which clarifies the need for action. The association was founded by art but fair took place on September 7, 2013.

As a first step in 2014, the association developed the "art but fair self-commitment", which represents a moral code for the everyday professional life of the artistic actors. Performers, producers, mediators, teachers and cultural politicians can each sign their own voluntary commitment and prepare annual progress reports. The United Nations Global Compact is the model for this voluntary commitment.

In 2013 and 2014 the association awarded the "The Golden Holly" prize for "the saddest and most outrageous incidents in the performing arts and music". Nominations and voting were carried out by the internet community. In 2013, the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Culture 'won' for the "reduction in the size of the theater and orchestra landscape in Saxony-Anhalt, which was forced by reducing state subsidies". In 2014 the holly was awarded to MIGA-Entertainment, a production company that managed to go bankrupt twice with the same musical production. After a pause for thought, a new award in 2017, the "art AND fair award", will now go to "outstanding achievements in the fight FOR appropriate remuneration and fair working conditions in the performing arts and music". As before, the nominations come from the Internet community, the (undoped) prize is to be awarded by a jury.

In 2015 the association initiated the study "Fair working conditions in the performing arts and music?" by Maximilian Norz, which was published in May 2016. An "investigation into working conditions, grievances and suggestions that can contribute to better working conditions", carried out by the Hans Böckler Foundation in cooperation with the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft eV and art but fair eV. The study comes to the conclusion that a voluntary commitment is "to raise awareness can contribute to the importance of fair working conditions ", but otherwise" has little potential to motivate the groups of actors to take advantage of their opportunities to alleviate the grievances in the working conditions of the artists. " The study therefore proposes three alternative instruments to achieve these goals: collective representation of interests, seal of approval and conditioned cultural funding.

aims

The association pursues the following goals:

  • to show the artists solidarity with one another to sensitize them to fair working conditions
  • To inform politics and the public about grievances in the field of performing arts and music - especially if these are financed with tax money
  • the development of a certificate ("seal of approval") for cultural institutions. An independent body checks at constant intervals whether cultural institutions offer fair working conditions.
  • the implementation of this certificate with the help of conditioned cultural funding. The sponsors attach certain conditions to funding, e.g. B. the possession of a seal of approval.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Articles of Association (PDF)
  2. ↑ Articles of Association (PDF)
  3. ↑ Facebook : artist fees
  4. ↑ Within a few hours the page had several hundred likes , after a few months over 15,000. This is the self-statement on the art but fair website .
  5. ↑ Art but fair self-commitment website - Accessed on November 27, 2016
  6. ^ Website of the UN Global Compact
  7. ↑ Hans Böckler Foundation, Study No. 319, May 2016 Fair working conditions in the performing arts and music ?! (PDF)