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Le Chauffage (french for “The Heater”) is an artist-run publication based in Brussels. It is conceived as a cross-continental, community oriented platform. Bringing together the work and writing of artists / friends from different cities, Le Chauffage intends to spark discussions and fuel casual forms of critical discourse.

The third issue of Le Chauffage is an inquiry into the relationship between the practices of artists/ writers and their day jobs. This subject stems from a question fundamental to the existing mandate of Le Chauffage: ‘how do you keep warm?’ and subsequently, ‘how do you pay the bills?’ As these perennial concerns occupy our everyday lives, we ask artists/writers to consider the influence that their day jobs, side hustles, creative or noncreative forms of employment have on their respective practices. This issue tries to account for the significant ways in which complex economic realities come to shape the art we produce, look at, and discuss. How do we deal with limited time and resources? How do we reclaim and steal time back? How do our day jobs shape and influence what we make? How do we subvert the means of production of the workplace? Can the constraint of a day job also be a way to alleviate the pressure of professionalising?

Contributions by:

Daniel Bozhkov
Nathan Crompton
Pippa Garner
Chauncey Hare
Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes
Garrett Lockhart
Jannis Marwitz
Reba Maybury
Tiziana La Melia
Dan Miller
Ragen Moss
Jean-Luc Moulène
Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Paul Niedermayer
Sophie Nys
Megan Plunkett
Chris Reinecke
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross on Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
Margaux Schwarz
Eleanor Ivory Weber
James Welling
WERKER
The Wig


Editors: Emile Rubino and Felix Rapp
Design: Felix Rapp
Cover Design: Francesca Percival
Printed by: Die Keure, Belgium
Edition of 550

ISSN 2564-3436

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.


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