Episode 10

Image courtesy: Instagram @justicefrombiennale18_19, 22 March 2019.

Image courtesy: Facebook @CultureWorkersSupportTrust

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Courtesy: Culture Workers Support Trust

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Examples of prominent trade unions within the culture sector that have provided a model for CWST:

Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees.
Cine and TV Artistes' Association (est. 1958).
Association of Designers of India.

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Lalit Kala Akademi

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Sahitya Akademi

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Sangeet Natak Akademi

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Poster for the workshop Pact of Silence - How to Break It? conducted by Arnika Ahldag and Meenakshi Thirukode (Instituting Otherwise) as part of Five Million Incidents (Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, 11 Dec. 2019).

Image copyright: Sanket Jadia

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The “Art/Museum Salary Transparency 2019” document.

Image and caption courtesy: ‘It’s Helpful to Know All Scales’: Online Spreadsheet Discloses Museum Workers’ Salaries', Alex Greenberger, 31 May 2019, ARTNews.

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'How Employees at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are Unionizing', Mike Murawski, 22 July 2020, Art Museum Teaching.

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'Statement in Solidarity with Artists Subjected to Intimidation and Discrimination in India Art Fair 2020 (Delhi)', Culture Workers Support Trust, 18 Feb. 2020, Facebook @CultureWorkersSupportTrust.

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'Statement Against State Repression of Culture Workers', Culture Workers Support Trust, 18 Sept. 2020, Indian Cultural Forum.

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"Pali: I am a bamboo craftsman with common thoughts and I've led a common life. We did our best to complete all the bamboo works for the Kochi biennale 2018 by working day and night. Today our names and our works are forgotten and our rightful payment is denied."

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Instagram @justicefrombiennale18_19, 8 April 2019.

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In December of 2018, a group of protesters interrupted a Guerilla Girls performance at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale to read a statement addressing sexual misconduct allegations in the Indian art community.

Photo by Dorian Batycka for Hyperallergic.

Image and caption courtesy: ‘In Subodh Gupta Defamation Lawsuit, “Whistleblower” Defendants Give First Statements in Court', Valentina di Liscia, 23 January 2020, Hyperallergic.

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References:

Christine Ithurbide, 'Beyond Bombay art district: Reorganization of art production into a polycentric territory at metropolitan scale', Belgeo [Online], 3 | 2014, 19 Dec. 2014, https://doi.org/10.4000/belgeo.13199.

- and Soraya Hamache, 'Art and Cinema Industries in India: Norms, Workers and Territories', Workshop at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Centre d'études Inde et de l

Asie du Sud, Newsletter No. 13 (Summer 2016), https://sites.google.com/site/ceiasnewsletter/-newsletters-20152016/newsletter-no-13---summer-2016/art-and-cinema-industries-in-india-norms-workers-and-territories.

- and Tejshree Savara, 'Legal Handbook for the Artist Community in India', UNESCO in partnership with New Delhi Office, Sept. 2020. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345342533

Kavita Singh, '2019 Arts & Museum Summit Keynote 3: Museums, New Locations, New Definitions', Asia Society Delhi, 12 Oct. 2019, https://asiasociety.org/video/2019-arts-museum-summit-keynote-3-museums-new-locations-new-definitions?page=255

John Rawls, 'A Theory of Justice', The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (1971) 1999.

'Google Spreadsheet Reveals How Much the Art World Earns', Frieze, 4 Jun. 2019, https://www.frieze.com/article/google-spreadsheet-reveals-how-much-art-world-earns.

'Journalist Priya Ramani not guilty in MJ Akbar defamation case, rules Delhi court', Scroll.in, 17 Feb 2021, https://scroll.in/latest/987146/journalist-priya-ramani-acquitted-in-mj-akbar-defamation-case-says-delhi-court.

Press Trust of India, 'Delhi Police interrupts India Art Fair after complaint of anti-CAA paintings; artwork was about India’s women, clarify participating artists', Firstpost, 3 Feb. 2020,

https://www.firstpost.com/india/delhi-police-interrupts-india-art-fair-after-complaint-of-anti-caa-paintings-artwork-was-about-indias-women-clarify-participating-artists-7993451.html.

'Indian Journalists Union defends media's right to report on MeToo allegations', Internet Freedom Foundation, 23 Jan. 2020,

https://internetfreedom.in/indian-journalists-union-defends-right-of-journalists-to-report-on-metoo-allegations/

Ophelia Lai, Subodh Gupta Settles Defamation Case Over Instagram #MeToo Allegations, ArtAsiaPacific, 3 Mar. 2020,

http://artasiapacific.com/News/SubodhGuptaSettlesDefamationCaseOverInstagramMeTooAllegations.

Benita Fernando, 'What is ailing the ‘people’s biennale’?', Livemint, 29 Mar. 2020, https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/what-is-ailing-the-people-s-biennale-1553828402428.html

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