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Does anyone actually want to be a "cultural worker"? | 9 comments

[new] I am a cultural worker / different countries (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#8)
by HenrikSchrat (henrikschrat@gmx.net) on Sat May 10th, 2003 at 02:22:28 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
(User Info) http://www.henrikschrat.de

Funny, I never really thought about problems with the term, though it says on my business card 'cultural worker' Though, in German. Kulturarbeiter. It might be not really comparable, as the term is a bit awkward in German, in english it is quite common obviously. (and used as english term in Geman speaking contexts funny enough.) To make the long story short: I think the term is correct, pragmatic and OK. Long I had nothing on my business card, or better: I did not have one, oh no, artists dont have one. Than I came to the poing having one, without any profession. And than came the point of coming down to earth, as I would call it, putting ARTIST under my name. Thats the context I am fiddeling around in, thats where most of the feedback comes from, and a lot of my friends are in that field. So I thought I should stop beeing so pretentious I AM DIFFERENT, and put ARTIST there. I dont like it, of course, becaus ART is problematic and so on.
And than, I think 3 years later came the point where I changed it into CULTURAL WORKER. It just seems to cover the field I am working in. For bette or worse: I think it is a clear and pragmatic term. Okay Okay, what is actually CULTURE and what is WORK...

8-) Schrat

Does anyone actually want to be a "cultural worker"? | 9 comments

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