Work Bitch By Luke Devine - Hot!hot!hot! Festival

Arts funding has been cut. Art schools don’t teach you how to get a job or how to write a grant application. Art makers have dedicated their life to abject poverty. This is not a real job. You will pay to show us your work. Describe a time where you did a degree that has no material value. It’s a struggle, it’s a war, and there’s nothing that anyone’s giving. But there is a way out. In the words of the esteemed prophet Britney Spears: “You wanna Bugatti? You wanna Maserati? You better work bitch”.

Luke Devine takes us through his top 3 fave jobs as an artist, from collecting actual garbage at the HCC to describing a different kind of trash at the NGV. Watch as Devine details how a dual career in government jobs has prevented him from getting on top of his creative game. Listen as his mother’s capitalist mantra is embodied by the instructions delivered in Britney Spears proletariat dirge Work Bitch. The very same orders Britney’s own mother gave her from the age of 8. Laugh, cry and troll because other people’s misfortunes are really the only thing that can make your dead soul feel better.