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This article, based on ethnographic research with Canadian circus performers, provides an intimate look into the lives of these creative workers. It contributes to the burgeoning literature on the creative economy by examining how ideas of “creativity” and “art” are being put to work in the lives of these performers, including the centrality of affective experiences like freedom and satisfaction, as well as the significance of particular relations of production in defining “art.” It reveals the way ideas of creativity and art can glamorize and promote precarity and simultaneously demarcate spheres of unalienated work. These findings suggest that workers, policymakers, and scholars could benefit from more conscientious use of these terms if we want to understand their impact or mobilize them for particular political purposes. Cet article se fonde sur une ethnographie des gens du cirque pour jeter un regard intime sur la vie de ces travailleurs creatifs. Il contribue a la litterature grandissante sur l’economie creative en examinant la maniere dont ces gens appliquent des idees comme « creativite » et « art » dans leurs vies et en rendant compte de la centralite de leurs experiences affectives de la liberte et de la satisfaction entre autres et de l’importance de rapports de production specifiques dans la definition de l’art. Cet article revele la facon dont certaines conceptions de la creativite et de l’art promeuvent la precarite en meme temps qu’elles delimitent des aires de travail non aliene. Ces constatations suggerent que les travailleurs, strateges et savants pourraient profiter d’une utilisation plus consciencieuse de ces termes s’ils veulent comprendre leur impact ou les adapter a des besoins politiques particuliers.

The Economic Lives of Circus “Artists”: Canadian Circus Performers and the New Economy