Autonomy Instead of Precarity

Multi-track career paths have always been part of the journey of creatives. Nevertheless, a persistent valuation motto has remained in hearts and minds of many artists and non-artists, that appears again and again: "If an artist is talent, that will also bring them money and fame. If an artist pursues an additional activity, they have failed and/or cannot be a "real" artist." This tunnel vision brings about feelings of shame and failure in artists when they need to pursue the opposite in order to sustain their existence.
In this workshop, the attention will be place on the full space for decision-making and thus reducing the subjective and objective dependency that many artists suffer from. A professional career as an artist contains many privileges that are sometimes forgetting in light of the pressure of securing one's existence. Whomever reflects upon this moves back to terrain familiar for creatives: an open field that can be shaped through the use of typical artist competencies such as imagination, flexibility, creativity, self-motivation, enthusiasm, a tolerance for frustration, discipline and a tolerance for ambiguity. And, in doing so, they achieve the ultimate goal: more space for art.