Free entry with reservation and limited capacity. This session focuses on analyzing the material and symbolic conditions that cross the sustainability of contemporary cultural practices, focusing on forms of precariousness, self-exploitation and structural dependence that affect cultural agents at various points. From a reading located, tensions between vocations will be addressed, professionalization and working conditions, attending to how the legitimacy frameworks are configured, funding and recognition within the cultural ecosystem. The session combines data, situated experiences and open debate, with the aim of problematizing the normalized narratives about cultural work and opening a space for critical reflection on the conditions of possibility that exist.
The meeting is part of the Culture on Campus-Cultura Jove project, of the University Culture Service, with the support of the Generalitat Valenciana. The session is organized in a progressive way with the aim of promoting a critical and grounded approach to the conditions that cross the access, training and participation in the cultural field. First of all, data and examples will be presented to contextualize inequalities in access to culture and artistic training (20 min). Next, a debate will be opened about the mechanisms of exclusion linked to language and symbolic legitimation in the artistic system (40 min). Next, experiences related to training costs will be addressed, unpaid work and the relationship between university and cultural institutions (40 min). After, a space for dialogue with the public will be opened (40 min). The session will conclude with a synthesis of the main ideas discussed and a final reflection on the conditions that structure access to contemporary culture (20 min).
