Attn BIG Torino artists: Does BIG Torino owe you money?

Dear BIG Torino artists and others,

The BIG festival (run by Michelangelo Pistoletto) owes us $2700 that we
paid out of our own pocket to set up our project there. No amount of
e-mail and telephoning from us and from one of the curators has had any
success in getting the festival to pay us this money.

For a while we thought this might be because of the events that we
describe at http://www.rtmark.com/torino/, but lately we have heard from
quite a few other BIG Torino artists who are, likewise, still awaiting
payment from BIG; still others had to pursue Fulvio Spada and other BIG
staff for weeks in order to get paid.

If you too are owed money by BIG (or any of director Michelangelo
Pistoletto's other entities, such as Citta dell'arte), we would love to
know details of your cases, so that we can pursue collectively various
options for forcing them to pay us all.

Also, several art journalists in Italy and elsewhere are interested in
this subject for articles about the hypocrisy of this festival, directed
by the founder of Arte Povvera, that claims to be about art confronting
the social and yet doesn't pay its artists. We will be happy to transmit
to them any information.

Best wishes,

Ray Thomas
for RTMark

Comments

, Max Herman

In a message dated 7/20/2002 8:53:28 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> We will be happy to transmit
> to them any information.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ray Thomas
> for RTMark


I say go for it Ray.

"If there was just some way of finding out how much they owe, and makin' 'em
pay."
–Repo Man


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, Max Herman

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In a message dated 7/22/2002 8:20:13 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> well, finalloy teh artist is raising his head and speaks against the
> curator.
> interesting… there are tons of simmilar stories but it is inetresting
> that
> those times of opressive neo-liberalism made artists more assertive
> financially. that's good.
>
> calin


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