DIENST (German: duty) is an artistic research in practice project I founded in 2022.
I aim to gather information around class related inequality in the arts, perspectives and concepts for income stability for artists, and experiment with formats that function as real examples for new, market and exploitation critical, safer ways of artistic labor.

As artists, especially those from non-academic and low-income backgrounds, we operate in a hyper-competitive, elitist realm, as we gamble our way up and down the paternoster. What is this industry that produces extremely well-educated professionals but keeps them in a constant state of existential fear? How can we be non-stop on duty with our backs pressed against the employment agency?