ETC. No. 3/ 2024: Selling Out

The third issue of ETC. magazine dedicates its pages to the grind, the hustle, the hard workers and the hardly working. Under the title Selling Out, it deals with our current conditions of wage labour, precarious forms of employment, self-actualisation through work and the ever-present struggle to get that bread. Is living for work a neoliberal delusion or a triumph of capitalism? Can we truly reclaim our time and if so, where do we begin? How does our state of constant emergency manifest itself and who profits? Can art address these issues or does it perpetuate the cycle of exploitation? Is exhaustion the new normal and have we accepted self-medicating as a coping mechanism? Are we burning out or quiet quitting? Is unemployment a mode of rebellion and is there relief in boredom? Does creating a personal brand liberate or enslave and is TikTok the new corpo? Is freelancing really free or should we rethink the word? Is there such a thing as having too many jobs? And why did Kim Kardashian say It seems like nobody wants to work these days? For this issue, were testing theories behind modes of working and not-working, asking whether being chronically overworked and underpaid is a point of no return or a call to action and whether selling out means beating the system or becoming its agent. PRESENTED ARTISTS eljka Aleksi, Arbajt Kolektiv, Bare Minimum Collective, Kemil Bektei, Nataa Berk, Vuk uk, Polina Davydenko, FaceOrFactory, Santa France, Kata Geibl, Lin Gerkman, Evgen opi Goriek, Ieva Kraule-Kna & Elna Vtola, Nika Kupyrova, Pita Project, Selma Selman, Maja Simii, Barbora imkov, Dorijan iko, Andrej kufca, Tadej Vaukman, Linda Vilka, Katarzyna Wyszkowska, Rafa arski CONTRIBUTIONS BY Hana eferin, Asija Ismailovski, Maja Ka, Ajda Ana Kocutar, Milo Kosec, Teja Miholi, Nika Mahni, Lara Meja, Petric Mogo, Laura Naum, Dino Peut, Klara Petrovi, Tna Ptersone, Matej Sitar, Ondej Trho, Kathryn Zazenski