Webinar: Artistic Entrepreneurship and Artistic Freedom?

Today artists are expected to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and become entrepreneurs:
self-employed freelancers in the cultural labor market. This could put a pressure on artists to
commercialize their creative works to secure their economic survival. But many artists are not
driven by a market logic, they do not want to start and grow businesses, neither do they seek to
contribute to general economic growth. Framing artists as entrepreneurs is also expecting them
to have a wide range of skills beyond their artistic abilities, such as marketing, networking, and
business management. While this may give them opportunities to have agency over work life. It
can also, put a pressure to develop these skills and challenge artists’ autonomy and their
opportunities to concentrate on their artistic expressions.

The research project ArtR ( ArtR ) invites you to take part in a webinar where we want to
highlight ideas, tensions, challenges and strategies for artists to have a sustainable working life
as free artists or as cultural entrepreneurs. We invite researchers, decision-makers, politicians,
artists and students to take part in discussions from different perspectives on the above topics.
The webinar will start with three short introductory keynotes on the topics: artistic freedom,
cultural entrepreneurship and artistic work and will continue with discussions in breakout rooms
with a summary in the end.

Keynote presentations

1. Freedom of art in the neoliberalized welfare state, Kaisa Murtoniemi, PhD, Tampere
   University
2. Which space for the arts? Artists between public and private in society, Katja Lindqvist,
   Associate Professor, Lund university
3. Sustaining Non-Urban Creative Communities: A Place-Based Approach to Innovation, Silvia
   Silva and Paola di Nunzio, Coimbra University, INSITU project (Horizon EU)
4. Artistic work and organizing, Monika Kostera, Professor, Warsaw University, Södertörn
   University

Register: here  to get the link for the Webinar.
No later than the 11 th of September.
If you have questions about the webinar, please contact: ann.sofie.koping@sh.se, Södertörn
University.

Presentation of keynote speakers

Kaisa Murtoniemi is a PhD and researcher at Tampere University, Finland. Her dissertation
was about: “Struggles over Culture: Articulations of the Value of Culture in Finland in the
2010s”. Her recent research concerns the marketization of cultural policy and how it affects or
contrasts with the traditional aims of democratization of culture and the freedom of art or the
arm’s length principle. In her speech she will focus on the change of the welfare state and how
it affects or threatens artistic freedom in new ways.

Katja Lindqvist is an art historian and holds a doctorate from the Department of Business
Administration at Stockholm University. She is currently an associate professor and senior
lecturer at the Department of Service Science at Lund University. Her research focuses on
artistic and cultural activities, particularly their organisation, management and financing. She
was a co-founder of the International master’s programme in Curating Art at Stockholm
University, which started in 2003. She teaches, publishes research on and conducts
commissioned evaluations of the organisation, management and governance of the cultural
sector.

Monika Kostera, is Titular Professor in economics and the humanities. She works as Professor
in Management at Warsaw University. She is visiting professor at Södertörn University, Sweden,
Rennes Université, France, as well as L’Université Paris Nanterre, and Elected Member of the
Sociology Committee of the Polish Academy of Science. She writes and publishes texts on
organization theory as well as poetry. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief at Tamara Journal for Critical
Organization Inquiry as well as Associate Editor at Management Learning, the Journal of
Management, Spirituality and Religion and at Culture and Organization. Her current research
interests include organizational imagination, disalienated work and organizational ethnography.
Member of Erbacce Poets’ Cooperative.

Paola Di Nunzio is Research Manager of the Horizon Europe project IN SITU: Place-based
Innovation of Cultural and Creative Industries in Non-urban Areas (2022-2026). She started her
career as a Junior Researcher in the project Atlantic Social Lab, belonging to the Science,
Economy and Society Research Group (NECES) at CES, followed by a period as Project
Manager in a local NGO working with migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, and as
Consultant in a SME in the area of innovation and territorial development.
paoladinunzio@ces.uc.pt ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8447-1445.

Sílvia Silva is a researcher and executive coordinator of the CREATOUR Observatory at the
Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She has held research activities and
developed projects, in cooperation and collaboration with public and private organizations. She
was the Research Manager of CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small
Cities and Rural Areas, and researcher in the projects UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing
and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture and IN SITU: Place-based Innovation of Cultural
and Creative Industries in Non-urban Areas. She has co-facilitated consultation, ideation, and
prototyping sessions in the areas of culture and tourism. silviasilva@ces.uc.pt ORCID ID: 0000-
0002-3952-6160