Initiators

• BIN, Italy 
• Circles, Berlin, Germany
• Commonfare, Italy 
• Common Wallet, Brussels, Belgium
• La Murga Cooperative, Barcelona, Spain
• Il Campo Innocente, Milan, Italy
• Institute of Radical Imagination IRI, traslocal
• L’Asilo, Naples, Italy
• Politics, Ontology, Ecology, Italy
• Macao, Milan, Italy
• Raising Care, Italy, Spain, Greece, Serbia
• S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice, Italy
• State of the Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• The Lab, San Francisco, USA
• UBI Lab Network, United Kingdom

Expanding Nodes Venice

• Mi Riconosci? Padova, Italy
• ADL Cobas Venezia, Italy

Art for UBI (manifesto) on the press

• ArtReview
• Global Project
• Effimera
• Sherwood
• Bin Italia
• Teatro e Critica

Art for UBI (manifesto) in the squares

• Il Campo innocente 1
• Il Campo innocente 2
• Sale Docks

A platform and a Manifesto on the role of art and art workers in the struggle for social justice

While the art market confirms his status as a safe-haven assets provider for the financial elite, the current pandemic has highlighted the fragility and precarity of art workers around the world, a condition common to a growing portion of humanity. In this situation a UBI (Universal Basic Income) would then represent a solution and indeed an urgent measure to implement. But UBI is not “only” a response to poverty, it is a necessary condition in order to rethink our extractivist ecological model, to correct many race and gender asymmetries and, last but not least, to change the art world’s present neoliberal structure. UBI must be seen as a tool to open up new subjective spaces, alternative to the dominating entrepreneurial individualism and focused instead on commons and care. If artists are already creating new collective economy models and alter-institutions, these small scale experiments will be much more valuable when connected with those growing social movements around the world fighting for a Universal Basic Income.