Should everyone who takes part in participatory art – both professional and non-professional – be paid? Would this be empowering, or restrict participants’ freedom? François Matarasso mulls it over.
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Like a lot of freelance artists, what I get paid ranges from a lot to nothing, according to the commissioner’s resources, what I’ve been asked to do, and my own wish to do it. So my choices about what work to take on hover between interest and need, but at least I get to choose. But what about the non-professional artists, the people who participate in art projects? What choices do they have?
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