[PD] life as a new media artist

[Derek Holzer]

10 years ago I made the decision to be "professional" and live off my 
art. But to do that, one has to treat their art as a business. That means:

1/3 of your time is spent traveling to exhibitions, performances, 
workshops, classes, festivals, symposiums and any other place where you 
get to show your stuff or do your thing...

...and 1/3 of your time is spent doing networking, promotion, 
organization, documentation, administration, applications, bookkeeping 
and all the other boring shit that happens when you sit down behind a 
computer (unless you are successful enough to afford an agent who can do 
it all for you)...

...leaving 1/3 of your time for the rest of your life.

If you don't have a family or a social life, you might actually be able 
to make art with that time. Or you could try giving up sleeping. In the 
end, you have to decide whether having a day job would give you more or 
less creative time and mental space, and then take it from there.

Best,
Derek

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---Oblique Strategy # 38:
"Courage!"