Introduction : new mobilities, alternative autonomies / Nico Dockx & Pascal Gielen -- Part 1. Common precarious autonomy -- 14 questions/14 responses: interview: Thomas Hirschhorn / Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen & Sara Weyns -- Eternal flame / Thomas Hirschhorn -- Autonomy and precarization / Isabell Lorey -- A caravan of freedom: mobile autonomy beyond 'auto-mobility' / Pascal Gielen -- Part 2. New autonomous attitudes -- Revolution/constitution / A Dog Republic -- Nautonomat operating manual : a draft design for a collective space of 'nautonomy' for artists and their friends / Raqs Media Collective -- Like water: stories of motherhood / Oda Projesi -- Quotations from/thoughts after symprovization on art and empathy / Erik Hagoort, Kirsten Leenaars, Jason Pallas, Caroline Picard, Tricia Van Eck -- Between professional precariousness and creative self-organization : the free perfoming arts scene in Germany / Jonas Tinius -- How to radicalize a mouse? Notes on radical opportunism / Kuba Szreder -- An interpretation of Jef Geys' oeuvre with autonomy as a voluntary guideline / Louise Osieka, Jef Geys.

Neoliberalism has taken autonomous professional values and labour firmly in its grasp. Traditional forms of employment are replaced with post-Fordist conditions in which work has become freelance, flexible, mobile, project-based, hybrid and temporary. This way of working is not new to artists. They have seen themselves confronted with these precarious conditions since many years. Mobile Autonomy detects what modes of economy and different innovative working modalities artists and other artistic professionals have developed in order to create their work in today's social, economic and political conditions. Theoretical insights are alternated with hands-on practices, examples and art works in order to learn from and reflect on contemporary artists' working conditions.
'We need to stay mobile to keep our autonomy alive, and we need to develop new autonomous practices to keep our mobility alive.'