What is it about?
Performing artists seem to remain in the culture sector despite the challenges with sustaining an artistic practice. Our research question is why the occupational commitment of the artistic precariat survives an external shock like the Covid-19 shutdown. We combined quantitative and qualitative survey data among performing artists in Norway (N = 607) one year into the pandemic.
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Why is it important?
Careers within the creative industries involve extensive underemployment and unemployment. A constant excess supply of artists fuels job uncertainty and low incomes.
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The culture sector was vulnerable when the Covid-19 pandemic hit because it depends on open social arenas and many of its practitioners were already in precarious working situations. A large portion of the performing artist population found itself in a perfect storm – constricted in its ability to practice, a gloomy economic outlook, and an already weak starting position.
erik døving
Oslo Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: Inescapably Les Misérables? Understanding the Sensemaking of the Artistic Precariat, The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, November 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2022.2135655.
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