EAIPA: Artists in Focus #4 – Chain of responsibilities: funding politics

EAIPA’s online event ‚Chain of Responsibilities: Funding Politics‘ – in the framework of its ongoing 2023/2024 event series ‚Artists in Focus‘ – will bring different stakeholders to the table to examine European funding politics in regards to fair working conditions for artists. Do funders query how individual artists are treated in the structures they are funding? Is the allocation of funds transparent and the working climate fair? And what is the legal status of the artist across different European countries?

The first part of this event will see us review models where national funding structures have put monitoring mechanisms in place, whether or not they bring an improvement for artists and where more support is needed for a fairer treatment of artists at their workplace. After a brief presentation of the fairness process in Austria, Sara Lönnroth from the Swedish Arts Grant Committee and Henri Terho from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland will talk about the latest efforts to create fair funding structures in Scandinavia, while Irma McLoughlin from the Irish Theatre Forum will give an update on the recent assessment report of the Irish pilot project ‚Basic Income for the Arts‘.

The second part of this event will focus on artists‘ working conditions and their legal status on the European level. For this, we will discuss the recent EU report on the status and working conditions of artists with the heads of the OMC Working Group: Toby Dennett from the Irish Arts Council and Heidemarie Meissnitzer from the Austrian Ministry of the Arts and Culture. Furthermore, policy researcher Elena Polivtseva will join the conversation to discuss what measures the EU can take in the future, and how difficult it is to find a Europe-wide solution. 

Afterwards, there will be time for questions and discussion.

• Welcome by Ulrike Kuner (EAIPA president)
• Fair Funding:
  Brief presentation of the Austrian fairness process, followed by discussions of fair funding models in Scandinavia with Sara Lönnroth and Henri Terho as well as an update on the Irish Basic Income for Artists by Irma McLoughlin.

• Fair Politics:
  Discussion of the OMC Working group’s EU report on artists‘ working conditions with Toby Dennett and Heidemarie Meissnitzer, followed by a conversation with Elena Polivtseva about an EU-wide game plan. 

Guests include: Toby Dennett, Heidemarie Meissnitzer, Elena Polivtseva, Henri Terho, Sara Lönnroth, Irma McLoughlin, and more…