An enquiry into the capitals and currencies of experimental, radical and artist-run initiatives in Australia. Excavating a shared history of independent practice stretching back to the 1980s, this publication situates new research within a rich continuum of debate about the Australian artmaking context. Part research, part advocacy document, part literature review, part reader, part position paper, Permanent Recession is a living contribution to current thought. As a handbook, it is a compilation of useful information in a compact and handy form. It should be used! 

Who are We Beyond Imperfect, Imposed 'Asia'? by Léuli Eshrāgi
Permanent Recession, Permanent Vacation, by Channon Goodwin
Introduction by Georgie Meagher
The All Conference Artist-run Initiatives Sub-sector by Ben Eltham and Catherine Ryan
Artists' Labour and the Speculation Economy by Colleen Chen, Ben Eltham, Sarah Gory, Lucie McIntosh and Channon Goodwin
Labours of Love: Women's Labour as the Culture Sector's Invisible Dark Matter by Macushla Robinson
Visual Artists and Creative Labour: Intellectual property rights as a basis for individual and collective interventions by Ktie MacNeill and Colleen Chen
Teacher, Teacher, Teacher by Spiros Panigirakis
In Pursuit of Philanthropy by Amelia Wallin
Making and Maintaining Space: Artist-run Initiatives Negotiating Compliance by Kate Scardifield
Zero Wage: Research and Advocacy in the Visual Arts by Esther Anatolitis, Marnie Badhma, Pip Shea and Channon Goodwin
Cracks in the Archive by Andrew Brooks
My House is Not Your House by Tian Zhang
Power and Dissensus by David Corbet
Something but not Critical: the Less Than Intimate Relationship Between Critical Writing and Artist-run Initiatives by Jacqueline Millner
Contents note continued: Political Practice: the Avant-garde and the Women's Movement by Anne Marsh
Let's Stay Together: The Politics of Collaboration by Lisa Radford, Pip Wallis, Maddee Clark, Neika Lehman and Amelia Winata
The Rise of the `Alternative Institution': from Alternative Spaces to Artist-run Initiatives by Peter Anderson
WA: Without Memory or Desire by Francis Russell
Ephemeral traces by Peter Anderson
Alternative Spaces to Critical Spaces by Mark Jackson
Alternative Spaces: Part One
Alternative Spaces: Part Two by Bernice Murphy
What's Love Got to Do with It? Love, Labour and Contemporary Art by Clare Cooper, Hana Pera Aoake, Talia Smith and Katie Winten
Safe White Spaces by Andy Butler
Sustaining Practices by Terri Bird and Spiros Panigirakis
Love and decolonisation in actu by Tristen Harwood
Learning to be proppa: Aboriginal Artists Collective Proppa NOW by Margo Neale
Firstdraft: A Case History on the Organisation of an Artist-run Initiative by Philipa Veitch.