As little as possible for as little as possible

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the contemporary art festival City of Women, which was dedicated to survival tactics, I discuss the conditions under which it came about and the conditions under which artists or self-employed individuals in the field of culture must work in this time of cuts to public funding of the arts in Slovenia. In the context of selected performances from this year’s City of Women programme, I ask how it is possible to create antagonistic art within the capitalist means of production without the artist and producer burning themselves out in the process and, with the insights of Silvia Federici, how it is possible to separate oneself from the market and from the country without reducing oneself to poverty.