“…2 TOVAL-GAJARDO, LARRAIN, AND SOTO ROY marginalization, and distress affecting artists, whose situation has been compounded by the pandemic (Cohen & Ginsborg, 2021;Crosby & McKenzie, 2022;Guadarrama Olivera et al, 2021;Observatorio Digital de la Música Chilena, 2020). Thus, the social and material conditions of artistic work shed light on the above issues, associated with contexts of precarity and structural vulnerability, where difficulties obtaining a remuneration, the need to work multiple jobs, high levels of overwork, instability, and informality configure dimensions that are not solely objective but which articulate subjective aspects of the artist as a worker (Cobos & Retamal, 2022;Kunst, 2015;Mauro, 2020;Pinochet Cobos & Tobar Tapia, 2021;Prior, 2018;Zendel, 2021); in this context, for example, productivity and selfexploitation play a key role in the construction of artists' subjectivities.…”