Debate with PAAC: What we mean when we talk about shared responsibility for professionalising artistic practice 

This debate chaired by Montserrat Moliner invites PAAC (Assembly-Based Platform for Artists of Catalonia) to discuss the importance of reaching agreements, and the shared responsibility of both public and private institutions for professionalising artistic work. 

Between 2021 and 2023, PAAC (Assembly-Based Platform for Artists of Catalonia) conducted research into the financial conditions of contracts commissioning artists. This analysis, carried out by Elena Blesa Cábez and Violeta Mayoral, in partnership with HAMACA, gave rise to the Guia per a una remuneració digna del treball artístic [Guide to Decent Remuneration for Art Work]. In order to create a list of criteria and scales agreed with institutions and to have a guide to negotiating with private companies, an initial phase of analysis and diagnosis began, with a survey to which more than 50 professionals responded. In the second phase, meetings were arranged with more than 90 people in the artistic sphere (curators, institutions and groups). 

this activity is part of

Value Production: Years Worked ≠ Years of Contribution 

activity

05.02.2025 – 21.04.2025

participants

Montserrat Moliner

Plataforma Assembleària d’Artistes de Catalunya (PAAC)

In 2021, MACBA launched the triennial Panorama, which aimed to “deepen its collaboration and dialogue with local artists and cultural agents”. [contra]panorama, the second edition of Panorama retains the same aim but works towards it through a year-long series of interventions that take the project’s title literally, in order to question both the continuing relevance of the triennial (or biennial) format and its capacity to offer a panoramic image of the present.

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exhibition

From October 24, 2024 to April 21, 2025

Epilogue

[contra]panorama