Call It Love
<p><em>Bilingual in English and German</em></p> <p>I wanted to compare the art and care sectors and find out something about the relationship between love and work. In both cases, unpaid or poorly paid work is socially legitimized by claiming that they are not merely vocations but labors of passion or love. I remember a journalist asking Christian Jankowski at the Manifesta 11 press conference why he had employed so many unpaid volunteers. He replied that if he had paid people as he would for normal jobs, they would have worked as if it was a normal job, and then Manifesta 11 would have become a completely normal art exhibition. So, in art, those who work out of love and passion are the ones who work well. And better still, without pay, because then you forget that you are working?</p> <p><em>Call It Love</em> sought to explore the ambivalence of this topic: What are the gendered connotations of poorly paid work legitimized by love? Does the demand for social recognition of such work also imply fair remuneration? Or do care work and art conceal rare areas of life that have so far successfully eluded capitalization? More specifically: What is the proportion of care work in art and vice versa? How could the spheres of life and work become more intertwined, and would reflecting on care also lead to a different understanding of art?…</p>
Issue Editor: Barbara Preisig
Contributors: Barbara Preisig, Barbara Basting, Léa Fluck, Gioia Dal Molin, Nadine Wietlisbach, Verena Nora Doerfler
Series Editor: Lucie Kolb, Pablo Müller, Barbara Preisig, Judith Welter
Designer: Sabo Day
Programmer: FLX Labs
Part of: Brand-New-Life Magazine
ISSN: 2297-9220