- Without a manifesto or definitive constitution the AMATEURIST NETWORK foregrounds talking as a self-sustaining currency.
- The Amateurist Network operates through a series of public meetings with the stated aim of promoting open and critical discussion around the economics of creative practice and cultural production.
- By examining the position of the artist or cultural worker within precarious and informal working practices the AN aims to define self-organisation through its ability to produce a site of learning rather than by self-reliance.
- Sharing ideas and experience in this way, the AN hopes to validate self-organisational strategies and strengthen networks within the arts community.
- And not least to assert the labour rights of workers operating with this radically open or precarious approach.
- If a member of the public wants to suggest a theme for a meeting the AN committee can be contacted at; amateurist.network@gmail.com
