Ep 10: Art & Labour - Culture Workers Support Trust

<p>In this episode, I, Kamayani Sharma, am in conversation with Shukla &nbsp;Sawant and Annapurna Garimella, Founder Trustees of the Culture Workers &nbsp;Support Trust, an organisation set up in 2019 to and I’m quoting them &nbsp;directly “spread awareness among culture workers about their rights and &nbsp;responsibilities". We discuss the modes and methods by which labour in India's vast culture sector can start to organise and collectivise, how stakeholders across public and private sectors can come together for worker-oriented solutions to entrenched problems and how forms of workplace violence including gender &amp; caste-based harassment (as that embodied by the #MeToo movement in the art world) cannot be delinked from broader issues of labour rights such as wage security and equitable contracts. We also discuss how in the network capital-dominated industries of the arts, legislative and judicial processes are necessary to enforce fair work conditions. Click here to access the Image+ Guide &amp; view the material being discussed in the podcast:&nbsp;https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-10. Credits:&nbsp;</p> <p>Producer: Tunak Teas&nbsp;</p> <p>Design &amp; artwork: Mohini Mukherjee&nbsp;</p> <p>Marketing: Dipalie Mehta&nbsp;</p> <p>Images: Culture Workers Support Trust&nbsp;</p> <p>Additional support: Kanishka Sharma, Amy Goldstone-Sharma, Raghav Sagar, Shalmoli Halder, Arunima Nair, Jayant Parashar&nbsp;</p> <p>Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CC BY-NC 4.0]&nbsp;</p> <p>References:&nbsp;</p> <p>Christine Ithurbide, 'Beyond Bombay art district: Reorganization of art &nbsp;production into a polycentric territory at metropolitan scale',&nbsp;Belgeo&nbsp;[Online], 3 | 2014, 19 Dec. 2014.&nbsp;</p> <p>- and Soraya Hamache, 'Art and Cinema Industries in India: Norms, &nbsp;Workers and Territories', Workshop at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New &nbsp;Delhi, Centre d'études Inde et de l Asie du Sud, Newsletter No. 13 (Summer 2016),&nbsp;https://sites.google.com/site/ceias