00:00 - 00:03 | We are offering you an exhibition |
00:04 - 00:05 | It is going to be touring |
00:05 - 00:07 | from here to here to here |
00:08 - 00:12 | This will be a great way to get your work known |
00:12 - 00:15 | We will need you to install your own work and do some workshops |
00:17 - 00:19 | I can see a whole new work |
00:19 - 00:21 | a chance to experiment |
00:24 - 00:26 | Just one thing |
00:27 - 00:28 | There is no fee |
00:31 - 00:33 | We have no budget to pay you |
00:34 - 00:36 | We need to pay the cleaners and for the wine |
00:53 - 00:58 | Those responsible for this outrage can stay. The rest get out! |
01:13 - 01:15 | You ask me to work for free... |
01:15 - 01:17 | to give you my life's work... for free... |
01:18 - 01:23 | You call this an opportunity, you take the glory and make yourselves look good using me for Free! |
01:25 - 01:28 | You report your great work to the Arts Council! |
01:29 - 01:31 | Do you tell them that you make a slave of me |
01:31 - 01:34 | This is outrageous... you think that I am a needy fool! |
01:34 - 01:37 | Without me you would not exist |
01:37 - 01:40 | Without me your organisations would have nothing to show |
01:40 - 01:42 | But, you don't understand, we have bills to pay |
01:42 - 01:46 | Bills! You pay everyone else except the artist |
01:46 - 01:48 | But, think of the benefits that you will have |
01:48 - 01:52 | Benefits! Can I pay for food with your benefits |
01:53 - 01:54 | Can I pay my rent with your benefits |
01:56 - 01:57 | You expect me to starve, to make work |
01:57 - 02:00 | so that you can offer me benefits! |
02:00 - 02:03 | Do I look like an idiot |
02:04 - 02:08 | Do I look like a needy fool |
02:08 - 02:13 | Its about time you wake up, we cannot work for free! |
02:14 - 02:16 | You tear out my soul and expect me to thank you |
02:17 - 02:21 | Do the people who you gather in your galleries know about this outrage? |
02:27 - 02:29 | How do the Arts Council feel about this? |
02:30 - 02:34 | Surely they care about how you treat me |
02:34 - 02:36 | Or are you hiding this from them? |
02:41 - 02:42 | I won't have it |
02:43 - 02:47 | It is about time that somebody exposed this exploitation |
02:48 - 02:53 | It can't continue! You treat me like a poor relation! |
02:54 - 02:56 | and yet you feed my ego with your tales |
02:56 - 02:59 | of support, of care, and how my work matters |
03:00 - 03:02 | and yet you stand there and tell me I will work for free |
03:04 - 03:07 | Don't cry, he's not alone in this |
03:14 - 03:16 | I now know what you really think of me |
03:19 - 03:23 | How you really value you me and my work |
03:25 - 03:26 | I now understand |
03:31 - 03:33 | what you really think of me |
03:40 - 03:46 | I can't believe that I have taken so long to realise that all your gestures are just words |
03:46 - 03:49 | You expect me to deliver, you take the glory |
03:53 - 03:56 | and I can starve! |