For Love and Money
Frieze Art Fair, 2006
- Last year the Freize Art Fair had a turnover of £33 million.
- The average artist in London earns below the minimum wage.
These two facts are inspiration for the radio program 'For Love and Money' to be broadcast on Resonance FM from the Frieze Art Fair on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 October 2006.
For Love and Money takes a look at the art economy through the eyes and experiences of artists and curators, far removed from the glitz of one of the world's most profitable and popular art fairs. Supporting and enriching the art world as the creators of the objects exhibited, traded and profited from, what place does the average artist or curator have in the jamboree?
For Love and Money invites artists and cultural workers at the thin end of the financial wedge to respond and react to the fair, moving the agenda away from profit towards a greater sympathy concerning art in contemporary society.
Programme highlights include Personal Culture Therapy sessions with Cecilia Wee and Anna Laura Lopez de la Torre, works by Laura Malacart, Fernando Arias and Santiago Posada, Paula Roush, Melanie Clifford and the vacuum cleaner as well as the One Minute Soapbox open commission.
For Love and Money is produced by Joanna Callaghan and Russell Martin.
Full programme details are available online at http://www.forloveandmoney.org.uk/