The Precarity of Freelance Artists

In this episode we invite three guests from different fields of the arts to discuss the issue of the precarity of freelance artists in contemporary Estonia. Our guests, Airi Triisberg from the visual arts, Barbara Lehtna from theatre and Siim Tõniste from the world of performance and dance, each have their own experience of this rather problematic issue. In addition to sharing their own experiences, they discuss whether this is an issue that artists should solve themselves, whether they should receive training to help them solve the problem as part of their creative degrees or whether the government should be the one to take the initiative through policies and regulations.