I’m basically just posting this here so i can link to it from this discussion over at Larvatus Prodeo. But it’s a reminder though that I’m involved in many debates and discussions about arts funding and policy priorities in Australia at the moment (most recently here and here) and too easily forget that most people [...]
Where Australia’s Arts funding goes
November 6th, 2009 14 Comments
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A facebook Experiment
March 1st, 2009 7 Comments
I am conducting a little experiment over at Facebook. I’m trying to work out whether it is possible to somehow round up all those people who don’t quite fit the “Art” boxes and as a result never get a seat at the table. My theory is that a relatively small number of highly centralised and [...]
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forms v. audiences
August 4th, 2008 7 Comments
From the Not Quite Book notes. Click here for an explanation…
Traditionalists will hate me but I am less and less convinced that artforms are a particularly useful way to slice up the way that cultures are talked about or resourced in the world.
The qualities that interest me are far more about the resonance of cultures, [...]
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