Pepp March For Art 29th May kl.16 @Nytorget

Pepp-March For Art is an annual event that was initiated in 2009 as a reaction to the so called "Konstfack scandal" and the debate that tried to criminalize the freedom of artistic activity. The event is public and everybody is invited to be apart of it. This year the event will be something different: we will give meaning for art, that is to say the space of activities related to creativity. It is going to be a day to celebrate all the people that work with creativity and culture and to remind our city how important for Stockholm these people are. The march will be preceded by a meeting / seminar about the role of creativity in society and will retain the same form as last year: an urban happening that consist of a walk through the city, performances and dances. This year is organized by a network of dancers, free lance workers in the field of communication, researchers, musicians, and artists. ART IS WORKING AND SO ARE YOU
~ Sunday, May 23 ~
Permalink
Immaterial Labour by Maurizio Lazzarato

An excerpt from one of the texts we read at weld during the reading
group.

“All the characteristics of the postindustrial economy (both in industry and society as a whole) are highly present within the classic forms of “immaterial” production: audiovisual production, advertising, fashion, the production of software, photography, cultural activities, and so forth. The activities of this kind of immaterial labor force us to question the classic definitions of work and workforce, because they combine the results of various different types of work skill: intellectual skills, as regards the cultural-informational content; manual skills for the ability to combine creativity, imagination, and technical and manual labor; and entrepreneurial skills in the management of social relations and the structuring of that social cooperation of which they are a part. This immaterial labor constitutes itself in forms that are immediately collective, and we might say that it exists only in the form of networks and flows.”