ASSESSMENT OF ARTISTS’ SOCIOECONOMIC AND WORKING CONDITIONS: THE EMPIRICAL CASE OF LITHUANIA

Year 2022, , 61 - 78, 30.09.2022

Rusne Kregzdaite , Erika Godlevska Morta Vıdūnaıtė

https://doi.org/10.46959/jeess.1089402

Abstract

The main aim of this research is to explore existing methodologies for artists’ labour force and create artists’ socio-economic and creative conditions an assessment model. Artists have a dual aims in their creative working process: 1) income, and 2) artistic self-expression. The valuation of their conditions takes into consideration both sides: the factors related to income and the satisfaction for creative process and its result. The problem addressed in the study: tangible and intangible artists' criteria used for assessments creativity conditions.
The proposed model includes objective factors (working time, income, etc.) and subjective factors (salary covering essential needs, self-satisfaction). Other intangible indicators taken into account: the impact on the common culture, social values, and the possibility to receive awards, to represent the country in the international market. The empirical model consists of 59 separate indicators, grouped into eight categories. The deviation of each indicator from the general evaluation allows identifying the strongest and the weakest components of artists’ conditions.

Keywords

artist conditions, artistic labour force, cultural policy, indicator, assessment model

Project Number

This article was funded by the European Social Fund under the No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712

Thanks

This article was funded by the European Social Fund under the No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 “Development of Competences of Scientists, other Researchers and Students through Practical Research Activities” measure. The research was partially funded by Lithuanian council of culture.

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