Multi Maintenance
Multi Maintenance considers the working culture within contemporary art and the forces shaping it. Featured artists Andi Crist, Willem De Haan, Li-Ming Hu, Liang-Yu Huang, Joseph Josué Mora, and Kye Benjamin Stone reflectively examine artistic labor and the development of artist careers.
To sustain an art practice, artists are often compelled to self-organize with exceptional flexibility. They frequently engage in multiple employments and work long hours without proper rates and insurance. Meanwhile, artists are perpetually ready to seize open calls and residency opportunities, shifting from one short-term project to another, advancing their careers through mobility and adaptability.
Willem De Haan and Li-Ming Hu respond to the theme of artists as global freelancers and art career building. Liang-Yu Huang suggests a working virtue aimed at achieving success as an artist. Andi Crist, Joseph Josué Mora, and Kye Benjamin Stone investigate the art field’s hierarchical structures and invisible labor through their behind-the-scenes perspectives working in art institutions. The artists in Multi Maintenance address how their various roles as art workers intertwine with their art practice and identities, complicating the notion of artistic labor and reflecting the precarious conditions art workers face in the contemporary art economy.
Multi Maintenance is curated by I-Chien Chen, 2024 CONNECT Curator-in-residence.
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Curation
I Chien ChenArtist
Andi CristWillem De Haan
Li-Ming Hu
Liang-Yu Huang
Joseph Josué Mora
Kye Benjamin Stone