Wages for Art(work) Co-Working Session (in-person) | Symposium 2023

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Join the Wages for Art(work) Co-Working Session. Make art while artist Quinlan Maggio works, with tech workers sponsoring creatives.

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<h1>THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT</h1><h3></h3><h3>P﻿lease note that you can also attend this event Online via Zoom. </h3><h3><strong>To attend virtually, register </strong><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wages-for-artwork-co-working-session-virtual-symposium-2023-tickets-641647283297"><strong>HERE</strong></a><strong>.</strong></h3><p>Join us for a Wages for Art(work) Co-Working Session, where participants are invited to make art while Associated Artist Quinlan Maggio works at their day job. During this hour-long session, participants can engage in any activity that is creatively generative for them, such as drawing, painting, collage, writing, sleeping, cooking, taking a walk, etc. </p><p>Quinlan will compensate creative participants at the rate of $40/hour, half of Quinlan's hourly wage. In this iteration, other tech workers are also invited to participate by co-working and sponsoring a creative participant with half of their hourly wage. </p><p>Artmaking materials and desk space will be provided for in-person participants, while those joining via Zoom are encouraged to work with their own materials and creative processes virtually.</p>

<h3>QUINLAN MAGGIO, Culture Push Associated Artist</h3><p><strong>Quinlan Maggio</strong> is an artist and tech worker based in Brooklyn, New York. Quinlan makes site-specific installations, videos and objects informed by a constant ongoing practice of performance. Through these mediums Quinlan processes experiences of workplace alienation and solidarity and synthesizes those experiences into artistic works that explore questions of labor and the artist’s studio as a site of production. Through this process of reforming and reimagining our relationship to work, Quinlan creates spaces for collective conversations about work, labor and technology through solo performance, immersive installations, and socially engaged projects. </p><p>Quinlan's most recent project was a free community vending machine on the Hunter MFA campus, inspired by community fridges, free food in tech workplaces, and family history. Past performances include a design lesson⁠ performed as a chair dance, a karaoke performance for former coworkers, interviewing at corporations like Facebook and Amazon in order to refuse job offers, and walking around Times Square with a layoff box.</p><p>Wages for Art(work) is an art project by Quinlan Maggio that leverages the artist’s labor power to give creative time back to working people, one hour at a time. During the hours that the artist is working a job, participants in the project are invited to book an hour-long session to ‘work’ alongside the artist. They can use that hour to make art, write, sleep, take a walk—anything that is creatively generative for them. Participants are then compensated for this time at the rate of 50% of the artist’s hourly wage. Participants are also encouraged to leave a short written review after the coworking session, and any reviews, as well as optional photo documentation, are collected on the Wages for Art(work) website.</p>

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