In Steve Taylor session, he show us about all the technical and conceptual aspects to live as an artist. He pointed out that artist and freelancer could be seen as a small business. He introduce how artist are categorise as sole trader, and he show us how to do the tax refund. He taught us what can be included or not to included while doing taxes. As a small company, we also need to do financial planning. Looking the previous expenses and plan how your business develops and what finances you need to support that. He also point out that as an artist, it has to be multi disciplinary in order to have enough income to survive and sustain our practice. In the end of the session, he also suggested that we may need to work part-time while you are getting your practice up and running.
To expend the disciplinary, I should transfer my skills and try different type of jobs and opportunities. For example, I can use the field recording skill to work on the film industry for live recorder which I don’t have experience to, but have potential. Or sound for screen or games could be the area I can try and explore. I can also try to create or put more attention on gallery content since my interest is field recording. The soundscape composition could be shape and use in gallery context which I was fully into during this course.