So, joy and proactiveness-spreading here we go..
The carrotworkers’ collective, are a bunch (ha ha, sorry – couldn’t resist) who describe themselves as “a London-based group of current or ex interns, mainly from the creative and cultural sectors, who regularly meets to think together around the conditions of free labour in contemporary societies.”
http://carrotworkers.wordpress.com/about/
I met three of them and took part in their participatory mapping project at ‘Making a Living’ in London a couple of weeks ago. What I really like about them is their stance against bad Internship practice and the corrosion this causes in general working conditions. They are working on a counter-internship guide and more about this can be found on their blog along with some great links to other organisations and resources.
There was a really interesting list of resources and references handed out at Making a Living, more of which I will post on here shortly (my blog was one of them so I won’t include that!).
The event was organised by Sophie Hope, facilitated with Veronica Restrepo and held at the Austrian Cultural Forum on 26th September. Sophie’s PhD is about the relationship between cultural democracy and the commissioning of art to effect social change so there is some really interesting stuff in there, have a look at some of Sophie’s action research here:
