When Art Becomes Work Paperback – Apr 25 2012
by Terry Norton-Wright (Author)
WHEN ART BECOMES WORK, is an Artist's Book that comments in form and content on the legalization of prostitution in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the subsequent "Art Stay" program that closed Red Light District brothels and converted them into artist ateliers resulting in the prostitution of the artist in the name of urban renewal. Based on the reverse attached book WHEN SEX BECOMES WORK, the word "art" was substituted for the word "sex" throughout the text calling the readers attention to the substitution of one type of worker for another. With this change, the entire book changes in purpose. What was previously a manual for the sex worker, now functions as a manual for the artist similarly to the way the brothel window functions as a new space.
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