Lise Soskolne's guest appearances

Lise Soskolne

Artists Space

Indistinct Chatter

The Answer is No

Douglas Crimp

Ariana Reines

Sarah Morris

Valeria Luiselli

Eve Essex

Juliana Huxtable

Lynne Tillman

John Miller

Deborah Willis

Lidija Haas

Fran Lebowitz

Justin Allen

Sophie Collins

Emily Stokes

Deborah Eisenberg

OwlTail

Artists have been asked to share their work for free for just about as long as artists have existed. And artists have also been trying to resist this all too common practice for at least the past century. Sharing your work for free isn't always a bad thing, but when cultural institutions who receive money to display work don't also share that money with the artists whose work gives them their purpose, something is amiss.Founded in 2008, W.A.G.E., or Working Artists and the Greater Economy, has been an important voice in the contemporary fight for artist's compensation for well over a decade at this point. They offer tools and resources to help artists negotiate and obtain fees when exhibiting or sharing their work publicly. And Lise Soskolne, a painter who has been W.A.G.E.'s core organizer since 2012, has been a key part of keeping the organization and its efforts going.In this episode, Lise shares her perspective on the shifts in thinking about compensation since W.A.G.E.'s founding, and also on the realities of maintaining an art practice while keeping a small organization going.Our interview was recorded in October 2020.

Artists have been asked to share their work for free for just about as long as artists have existed. And artists have also been trying to resist this all too common practice for at least the past century. Sharing your work for free isn't always a bad thing, but when cultural institutions who receive money to display work don't also share that money with the artists whose work gives them their purpose, something is amiss.Founded in 2008, W.A.G.E., or Working Artists and the Greater Economy, has been an important voice in the contemporary fight for artist's compensation for well over a decade at this point. They offer tools and resources to help artists negotiate and obtain fees when exhibiting or sharing their work publicly. And Lise Soskolne, a painter who has been W.A.G.E.'s core organizer since 2012, has been a key part of keeping the organization and its efforts going.In this episode, Lise shares her perspective on the shifts in thinking about compensation since W.A.G.E.'s founding, and also on the realities of maintaining an art practice while keeping a small organization going.Our interview was recorded in October 2020.

Negotiating Alone is Not the Point, with Lise Soskolne

The sixth episode consist of “The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman" a text written by Lise Soskolne and read by Tamara Faith Berger. Lise Soskolne was born in Canada in 1971 and lives and works in New York since the late 1990s. She is a co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy and has been its core organizer since 2012. The organization advocates for the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions in the U.S. In the context of her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Humour Then, at Kunstverein Nürnberg in 2020, Lise wrote provenance records for each of her paintings in the show. She decided on this format to document and convey the creation process of her paintings as well as their exhibition participations and changes of ownership. The latter played an especially interesting role in regards to “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, a painting which is part of the group exhibition in Vienna. In "The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman", the artist interweaves “the violent refusal” of the character of Jeanne Dielman in Chantal Ackerman’s 1975 film with the events surrounding the sale of the work in the late 1990s. Tamara Faith Berger is the author of Lie With Me (2001), The Way of the Whore (2004) – republished together as Little Cat in 2013 –  Maidenhead (2012) and Kuntalini (2016). Her fifth book, Queen Solomon, was published by Coach House Books in October 2018. It was nominated for a Trillium Book Award. Her work has been published in Apology, Canadian Art, Taddle Creek and Canadian Notes and Queries. She runs Smutburger, a literary collective. She lives in Toronto.  Music written and produced by Mike Ratledgemikeratledge.bandcamp.comPodcast unterstützt durch österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.

The sixth episode consist of “The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman" a text written by Lise Soskolne and read by Tamara Faith Berger. Lise Soskolne was born in Canada in 1971 and lives and works in New York since the late 1990s. She is a co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy and has been its core organizer since 2012. The organization advocates for the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions in the U.S. In the context of her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Humour Then, at Kunstverein Nürnberg in 2020, Lise wrote provenance records for each of her paintings in the show. She decided on this format to document and convey the creation process of her paintings as well as their exhibition participations and changes of ownership. The latter played an especially interesting role in regards to “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, a painting which is part of the group exhibition in Vienna. In "The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman", the artist interweaves “the violent refusal” of the character of Jeanne Dielman in Chantal Ackerman’s 1975 film with the events surrounding the sale of the work in the late 1990s. Tamara Faith Berger is the author of Lie With Me (2001), The Way of the Whore (2004) – republished together as Little Cat in 2013 – Maidenhead (2012) and Kuntalini (2016). Her fifth book, Queen Solomon, was published by Coach House Books in October 2018. It was nominated for a Trillium Book Award. Her work has been published in Apology, Canadian Art, Taddle Creek and Canadian Notes and Queries. She runs Smutburger, a literary collective. She lives in Toronto. Music written and produced by Mike Ratledge <a href="http://mikeratledge.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mikeratledge.bandcamp.com</a> Podcast unterstützt durch österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.

Vol. 6 - Lise Soskolne

Ian White

Here Is Information. Mobilise.Selected Writings by Ian WhiteBook Launch &amp; Readings DocumentationTuesday, February 14, 2017Artists Space Books &amp; Talks55 Walker Streethttp://artistsspace.org/materials/here-is-information-mobilise

Here Is Information. Mobilise. Selected Writings by Ian White Book Launch &amp; Readings Documentation Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Artists Space Books &amp; Talks 55 Walker Street <a href="http://artistsspace.org/materials/here-is-information-mobilise" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://artistsspace.org/materials/here-is-information-mobilise</a>

Lise Soskolne reads from "Here is Information. Mobilise. Selected Writings by Ian White"