Beyond the Studio - A Podcast for Artists
Aug 27, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min · 12 segments
Hear more from Art.coop core organizer Sruti Suryanarayanan on how artists are building their own economies, ways artists are likely participating in the solidarity economy movement without even…
Sruti SuryanarayananGuestNicole MullerHostAmanda AdamsHost
Yeah, I mean, I think that the terminology is simultaneously, like, the least important and the most important.
Like, I talked to my parents about this, and they're like, you know the shit that you talk about for your job? Like, that's just what we do.
Like, I was raised by a bunch of aunties and uncles who just, like, swapped the kids when they could.
My parents are like, that's, why are you calling it this big thing? Right, doesn't need a
But the thing that I've been successfully able to get my dad to do more recently is actually talk about how important it is to feel like you're a part of a movement.
And I think that is the thing is that no one is denying that this work has not been happening, especially with aunties and uncles for centuries.
But when we name it and we identify ourselves and each other as part of this, it can feel really not just unifying and like uplifting, but I find it actually comforting in the face of such abundant fascist abuse.
There's other people who understand what I am trying to build towards and why we're actually fighting.
And I think, again, this is the emphasis on the pluralism and the solidarity economy gives is because we want that unity and that comfort and that hope.
And that investment in both resisting and building to feel palpable for as many people as possible, because that's how momentum and power builds.
If we continue to operate in silos, then we're going to build and move in silos and like, 10 silos against one giant army is just, it's not, it's not doable when in fact we actually have the capacity to fight and build something totally new.
And we, we should begin to identify as much as possible those different ways that we're operating together.
And I will say this isn't to like say that we should let go of the specificity or the nuances or the details, right? Like one of the things that we talk about is like art.coop, we're not technically a cooperative.
We're a non, like non-hierarchical collectively run, Fiscally sponsored, whatever, arts collective.
That doesn't mean that we can't talk about the unity between a self-directed nonprofit and a worker co-op, but it does mean identifying the differences in how our resources are accumulated or maybe not accumulated, how our resources are found and mapped.
Yeah, I mean, I think that the terminology is simultaneously, like, the least important and the most important.
Like, I talked to my parents about this, and they're like, you know the shit that you talk about for your job? Like, that's just what we do.
Like, I was raised by a bunch of aunties and uncles who just, like, swapped the kids when they could.
My parents are like, that's, why are you calling it this big thing? Right, doesn't need a
But the thing that I've been successfully able to get my dad to do more recently is actually talk about how important it is to feel like you're a part of a movement.
And I think that is the thing is that no one is denying that this work has not been happening, especially with aunties and uncles for centuries.
But when we name it and we identify ourselves and each other as part of this, it can feel really not just unifying and like uplifting, but I find it actually comforting in the face of such abundant fascist abuse.
There's other people who understand what I am trying to build towards and why we're actually fighting.
And I think, again, this is the emphasis on the pluralism and the solidarity economy gives is because we want that unity and that comfort and that hope.
And that investment in both resisting and building to feel palpable for as many people as possible, because that's how momentum and power builds.
If we continue to operate in silos, then we're going to build and move in silos and like, 10 silos against one giant army is just, it's not, it's not doable when in fact we actually have the capacity to fight and build something totally new.
And we, we should begin to identify as much as possible those different ways that we're operating together.
And I will say this isn't to like say that we should let go of the specificity or the nuances or the details, right? Like one of the things that we talk about is like art.coop, we're not technically a cooperative.
We're a non, like non-hierarchical collectively run, Fiscally sponsored, whatever, arts collective.
That doesn't mean that we can't talk about the unity between a self-directed nonprofit and a worker co-op, but it does mean identifying the differences in how our resources are accumulated or maybe not accumulated, how our resources are found and mapped.
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