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10.12.2009 and 11.12.2009

Why are artists poor?

Seminar and screening in collaboration with BKFH

Thursday @ Bergen Art Museum

10:00 Introduction by Adriana Alves, Hilde Jørgensen and Maya Økland

10:15 Hans Abbing (NL) – The value of art work for artists

11:10 Eivind Slettemeås (NO) – Art and Precarity

11:45 REKO (SWE) – Fair trade in the contemporary art sector

12:15 Lunch

13:00 Dag Solhjell (NO) – Poor artists in a welfare state

14:00 Catherine Hug (AT) & Isabel Reiß (SWI) – Capitalism get off my back

14:45 Panel discussion with moderator Åse Løvgren (NO)

Friday @ Entrée in Nøstegaten 49

21:00 The video art compilation WORK, curated by Isabel Reiß & Catherine Hug

The DVD compilation WORK was supported by

The seminar Why are artists poor? was carried out through the generous support of:

NORSKE BILLEDKUNSTNERE

Frida og Olaf Rustis Legat