Breakfast Talk: How do we fund this art? (Hybrid)
Art that is experienced through touch doesn't fit neatly into the existing models we use to fund and sell art. It's often experienced solo or in small groups, for extended or repeated periods of time. Neither the gallery nor the theatre model fits, so should we look at the models of a barber? A subscription service? Something entirely new?
At the same time, these old models are breaking down. Art grants are continually slashed and artists are increasingly pushed to find new ways of financing their work. The narrow question of how you fund an artform that is experienced by few people at a time opens into a broader one: how is art financed in a service economy, and what role does it play in the economic models taking shape around us?
This breakfast conversation brings together three practitioners whose work sits in different places in this landscape:
Gustaf Tadaa Josefsson, co-creator of Andetag, a permanent immersive exhibition in Stockholm that is funded through season passes and selling merch.
Kirsi Ihalainen, CEO of Tuntu Design, sound artist who builds interactive haptic and scent installations for places such as spas and airports.
Johan Forsman, artistic director of the art platform Skogen, where public performances always comes with a meal, and founder of the artistic tool sharing platform Samarbetet.
Introduced and moderated by Daniel Berg, economic historian at Stockholm University, who will frame these questions in the light of different economic models and ways of assigning value to art and to anything else.
Breakfast courtesy of Hagabageriet.
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cnv-jdqt-cfb
The meeting will also be live-streamed on Instagram.