Culture Minister Andras Demeter in an interview with AGERPRES said that in vocational professions, the unit of measurement should be the deliverable or the creation, not the amount of time worked by someone who has chosen to work in the cultural area.
'In vocational professions, the unit of measurement should be the deliverable, the creation, the restored object, the exhibition, the performance, the book, the film, the production, the interview, and its quality. Not the time worked on this interview. Not eight hours a day, forty hours a week (...).
To be able to offer culture, regardless of its form, to the recipient, you have to consider that recipient's schedule. If someone works until 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday, it's clear that you can't expect them to show up at 7:00 PM for a theatre performance, an exhibition, or an art opening, especially in large cities, where it's nearly impossible to get there in time, not to mention the mental and even physical preparation needed to attend a show, visit a museum, or go to a cultural event,' said the minister.
Andras Demeter advocates for a transition to a much more liberal system, one closer to the relationship between the creator and the final beneficiary of the creation.
'So, if your unit of measurement is time, the hours worked per week, and you are also required, like any regular citizen, to take weekends or legal holidays off, then where does that leave the vocational profession? Is it just a job then? Where is the vocation? Therefore, first and foremost, if we truly want to be cultural workers, and I don't like that phrase, but it came from the translation of the translation of translations' and was eventually absorbed even into national legislation, then we must accept this switch, this transition from one system to a more liberal one, closer to the cultural phenomenon itself, closer to the rules of these professions, and especially closer to the relationship between me, the creator, and you, the final recipient of the creation, of my work, of the vocation that led me to become an actor and not, for example, a bureaucrat. Otherwise, we will remain trapped in a system that leads to the very deadlock we are seeing today,' the minister believes.
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