[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Attn BIG Torino artists: Does BIG Torino owe you money?

[calin@euronet.nl]

well, finalloy teh artist is raising his head and speaks against the curator. 
interesting... there are tons of simmilar stories but it is inetresting that 
those times of opressive neo-liberalism made artists more assertive 
financially. that's good.

calin


> Dear BIG Torino artists and others,
> 
> The BIG festival (run by Michelangelo Pistoletto) owes us $2700 that we
> paid out of our own pocket to set up our project there. No amount of
> e-mail and telephoning from us and from one of the curators has had any
> success in getting the festival to pay us this money.
> 
> For a while we thought this might be because of the events that we
> describe at http://www.rtmark.com/torino/, but lately we have heard from
> quite a few other BIG Torino artists who are, likewise, still awaiting
> payment from BIG; still others had to pursue Fulvio Spada and other BIG
> staff for weeks in order to get paid.
> 
> If you too are owed money by BIG (or any of director Michelangelo
> Pistoletto's other entities, such as Citta dell'arte), several art
> journalists in Italy and elsewhere are interested in this subject for
> articles about the hypocrisy of this festival, directed by the founder of
> Arte Povvera, that claims to be about art confronting the social and yet
> doesn't pay its artists. We will be happy to transmit to them any
> information.
> 
> Also, we would love to know details of your cases, so that we can pursue
> collectively various options for forcing them to pay us all.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Ray Thomas
> for RTMark
> 
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