17.10-14.11.2023
5 sessions (single sessions also available)
16:00 – 18:00
Facilitators: Yun Lee, Matteo Marangoni, Marije Baalman, Dieter Vandoren, Soyun Park Fee: €50 for all or €12 per single session
Artist Survival Guide
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Artist Survival Guide
Workshop17.10 - 14.11.2023iii workspace, The Haguehostbudgetingcontractscultural entrepreneurshipprofessionalizationsocial mediatech ridersworkshop
Date: 17.10 - 14.11.2023
Doors: 15:45
Event time: 16:00
Location: iii workspace
City: The Hague
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Art school may have taught you how to experiment, make, and critique, but if you recently graduated, you might be finding yourself at a loss when it comes to navigating the larger cultural sector. This is where the Artist Survival Guide comes in.
The Artist Survival Guide is a workshop series by iii members covering entrepreneurial survival skills such as grant writing, budgeting, negotiating with curators, and promoting your work. The workshop is aimed at recent, soon-to-be art school graduates and working artists looking to further professionalise their practice.
Schedule
Oct 17: Introductions, pitches, and cold calls with Yun Lee
Oct 24: Cultural Entrepreneurship with Matteo Marangoni
Oct 31: Budgeting for a sustainable practice with Marije Baalman
Nov 7: Tech riders and standard contracts with Dieter Vandoren
Nov 14: Social Media with Soyun Park
Introductions, pitches, and cold calls
You’ve got this great idea for a project and you want to share it with the world. How and to whom do you propose it? In this workshop, we’ll practice introducing ourselves and our ideas in different contexts. There will also be time to share anecdotes from curator, artist, and collaborator perspectives to better understand where we’re all coming from, and why different people need to be approached differently.
Cultural Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial skills and considerations needed to be a freelance artist. Matteo will introduce core ideas on approaching your art practice as a business and how to get your projects supported by cultural funds.
For this session, prepare a 30 second project pitch. There will be an opportunity to work on this in the “Introductions, pitches, and cold calls” session.
Budgeting for a Sustainable Practice
Marije will guide you through how to make a personal budget as a working artist, and how to create a realistic project budget
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Production and Standard Contracts
In this workshop, Dieter will outline the practical details of a presentation in different settings (theatre, gallery, museum, festival), from negotiating contracts to writing tech riders.
Social Media Strategies
Soyun will share strategies on how to use Instagram and LinkedIn to reach clients, followers, and collaborators. Through exercises, learn how to edit your profile, how to create content from your portfolio, how to navigate the ethics of social media, and how to reach the audience you’re looking for. Suitable for both visual and sound-based artists.
About the facilitators
Yun Lee is an artist, curator, and facilitator. His focus in curatorial projects and workshops is community-building through knowledge-sharing.
Matteo Marangoni is an artist, curator, and chairman of iii. Within iii he coordinates the activities of the organization, fundraises, and curates No Patent Pending.
Marije Baalman is an artist, researcher/developer, and treasure of iii. She creates sustainable budgets for iii, makes sure that everyone is paid fairly, and is developing fair payment practices for iii.
Soyun Park is a media artist and designer from South Korea. She is also founder of an audio-visual community studio, RGBdog.
Dieter Vandoren is an artist, performer, IT developer, and associate of the rental and production company Squat Deluxe Rotterdam.
For any questions, please email Yun at yun@instrumentinventors.org
Artist Survival Guide is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.
