The Artist Plc is a brilliant new initiative that brings together the best of arts and enterprise. Inspired by Web 2.0 mash-ups, it is part stock company, part Task Rabbit, part campaigning group, part R&D lab. Artists buy, develop and make creative solutions for themselves and others.
Moved by Sir Peter Bazalgette’s description of arts funding as a ‘three-legged stool’ (sic) (in his inaugural speech as Chair of Arts Council England, March 2013), The Artist Plc was invented to challenge the fuddy-duddy organizational and institutional structures in the arts.
The Artist Plc inverts conventional logic of how art and business operate, creating a world where artists themselves can benefit from the organizational structure of the corporation. What better way to maintain artistic autonomy than through the solidarity of a Plc, where creative, financial and social profit of artistic activity goes to each member of the Plc, bypassing the middlemen, agents, curators, dealers, and other gatekeepers.
We are always interested in connecting to artists, researchers, activists, makers, crafters – we need MORE investors.
MORE ideas.
We need MORE of you.
When you want a creative solution, come to us.
When you have a solution to offer, work with us.
When you’re awash with admiration, testify to us.
If you have an idea for a product and would like to discuss distribution, please Contact Us and we will be touch.
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