The precarity to which one is exposed in the art industry generates a rage whose expression cannot be categorized within the basic academic principles of language. This language demands a semantics that is tantamount to colonial-historical etymology. Knowledge and language are again subjected to categorical classifications that aim to stigmatize thought. In order to break out of this matrix, I must both visualize the context and contextualize the visual, make it the object of investigation.

Aphorisms & the unemployed artist’ is about playing with the artistic language that makes the affective, uninhibited emotion of anger or rage the subject. In this two-part, artistic-literary project, I have expressed my thoughts on the economic, professional and emotional context of artistic existence in an affective flow of writing.

The first part, Aphorisms, consists of individual sentences and series of sentences which, flowing like a stream of thought, express the contradictory conditions of the art scene which artists are confronted with. From the categorization by institutions to the detachment of financial stability and the monopolization of the art domain, to the capitalist organization of the art market. I also deal with the everyday, banalized clichés that affect artists and express them in an oversimplified language through references to pop culture. The second part of the book the unemployed artist, is an analytical examination of questions about artistic activity. This research takes as its starting point questions relating to the issues of work as employement and artistic activity. The subject was also whether the precarious status of the artist could be overcome by introducing a basic income for artists and what effects this would have on the art scene.