📢✒️"Stability, Foundations & Flourishing: The Basic Income for Artists in Ireland"✒️📢
Article Published in Kolaj Magazine #43.
I am proud to announce that my article entitled “Stability, Foundations & Flourishing: The Basic Income for Artists in Ireland” will feature in the upcoming issue of Kolaj Magazine #43. In this article I reflect on my personal experiences and the results of the incredible pilot program and the triumphal work carried out by the National Campaign for the Arts in Ireland to get this program onto a permanent footing. I also reflect on the harrowing and critical research supplied by the our colleagues and friends who took part in the pilot program control group, and who’s sacrifices have provided us with an accurate and lamentable portrait of the precarity faced by creatives without a program like this.
Kolaj Magazine exists to report on the International Collage Community and how collage is making its way into the world.
Kolaj Magazine Issue #43 also features:
✂️Clive Knights is on the cover of Kolaj 43. His essay, “The Fluctuation of Likeness” speaks to the Necessity of Misrecognition. He writes, “Art reveals a part of something that perpetually extends beyond the edges of our reach, where nevertheless, the very act of reaching imparts an unsubstitutable, somewhat melancholic joy (though oddly reassuring) in the impossibility of the puzzle ever being completed.”
✂️In “Everything a Little Richer”, Michael Joshua Rowin interviews photomontagist Mark Rappaport about the way he thinks about images, art, and cinema.
✂️Anthony Michael Ryder considers the relationship of collage and trauma in “A Communion of Pain”.
✂️Emily Denlinger writes about taking her “Gain of Function” project to Carnival in New Orleans. “Most of my personal experience with collective effervescence has happened during political rallies. Being on site during Carnival allowed me to broaden my experience with collective effervescence and participate in the folklore, customs and rituals surrounding these events.”
✂️A whole host of other writings and images from international collage artists doing incredible things.
For more from Kolaj Magazine #43 and the work of the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.
For more from cover artist Clive Knights CLICK HERE.
Cover Image: “Overlooked ” (2024) Analogue Collage by Clive Knights.