Work on Social Piece (show 10 March 2010): looking at the (potential) conditions of the performance and their social aspects. Searching for concepts around the community of an audience and the objective of a piece. The composition must be the trigger of performativity, more than a selfreferential performance ...
Dinner with sponsor: thinking and talking around work time, free time, payment, the plesure of work, the status of work, etc. One of our insights during a good belgium beer:
The (personal) need for a definition of work comes not until something is wrong.The artists answers to the questionaire (from before the dinner-talk):
Pay A Day:
Does your commission fee represents your idea, what an artist should earn per day?
Yes
How did you chose 'your' day?
I was playing with the numbers. 09.12.09 seemed a nice choice, but then David prefered 08.12.09, as we also met in person that day.
Does the kind of day - week or weekend - made a difference for your fee? Should it make a difference?
No and no
Would you find it weird to not get a free ticket to the performance of the piece, you payed for?
No
Did you ever pay for an artwork, beside paying for entrance tickets? Did you ever commission a work of art?
Yes and no.
Do you expect me to work on this project/piece? How would you specify your commission, if I asked you to?
I would like to know what you expect me to expect from you in this undefined situation.
Did you check my personal blog/website before you decided paying me a day of work? And did the work you saw there have an influence on your decision?
Yes
Do you expect me to spent the entire day working? Should my working time be related to the fee? Would you suggest a logical formula for this?
A day is a day is a day
Do you have a message coming with your contribution? Or a special question? Which one?
I would like to know what you expect me to expect from you.
In general:
Would you pay only for good art?
If good means interesting, yes.
Who should pay for art? (society, artists themselves, other artists, sponsors, the actual audience, ...)
Everybody
Who should be payed for art? (everybody, who makes art? everybody, who calls himself an artists? the state, so they can pay the artists? amateurs? studied artists? only the good ones? ...)
What should an artist earn per day?
Enough to live a decent live and produce her or his art
What should be the relation between the fee and the work of art? Should their be an influence from one or the other side?
No
Social Piece:
Do you like the title?
I don't quite uderstand it.
Do you mind, if the piece doesn't include music?
I think should include sound (easy, as anything includes sound)
Would you mind being actively integrated in the performance:
- as a member of the audience?
- as a sponsor?
I will be in the audience, and even make use of the piece in one of my pieces, an installation.
Will you be there at the performance (10 March 2010 in Bergen)?
Yes
Should Social Piece be related to Pay A Day? Should it reflect the sponsorship, the single fees and the raised questions and their answers?
No
Do you have a wish for Social Piece?
???
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