The launch of Vivan Storlund’s book Widening horizons by mining the wealth of creative thinkers: to seize the empowering potentials of the digital age with artists as precursors and basic income as the means will be held on Monday 21 October, 2019 from 12:30 to 14:00 in LC216 (Lecture Centre), University of Malta Msida Campus. The launch of the book will be followed by a round table discussion.
The event, entitled Precarious Artists’ Labour: Challenges and Solutions, is coordinated by Dr Anna Borg - Centre for Labour Studies and Dr David Zammit - Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Laws.
"The creative sector has to a great extent overtaken industrial production as an economic driver in advanced economies. There is a new world on the internet forming new communities of interest as well as creating a new economy, the platform economy. Notwithstanding, working life continues to be regulated according to the industrial rationale with full-time, long-term employment... Those who do not have such 'standard employment' can often face Kafka-like situations being disciplined in multiple ways. This is a situation in which artists have long-standing experience.
To cite the Maltese cultural activist Narcy Calamatta: Goldoni died destitute in Paris a day before the revolutionary forces gave him a pension, Caravaggio died destitute on the streets of Porto Ercole, Mozart died burdened with debts, Molière was buried in un-consecrated ground".
What can we do to reverse this status and ensure a basic income as a means to ensure that everybody can live a life as an active citizen? - Vivan Storlund (2018)
Programme
12.30 - 12:45
Vivan Storlund – What is this book about and why is it important?
Vivan Storlund – What is this book about and why is it important?
12.45 - 13:00
Brown Bag lunch and drinks
13:00 - 14:00
Panel discussion:
Dr Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts
Hon Mr Justice J.R Micallef
Mr George Cremona Director, Ministry for the Family, Children's Rights and Social Solidarity
Ms Florinda Camilleri, Pharmacist, Dance Artist & Co-Director of The Amber Spark
Mr Kevin Camilleri, Deputy Secretary General, General Workers Union
Mr Josef Vella, Chief Executive Officer, Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin
RSVP: contact the Centre for Labour Studies
RSVP: contact the Centre for Labour Studies