Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Calling all shamans
Evidently no one's losing their sense of wry humour over at the Canada Council for the Arts. The image on the cover of their just-released 2010 grant deadline calendar is a work by Adrian Stimson called Shaman Extermination Sunrise 2, photographed by Happy Grove.
Death, with Musical Accompaniment
Art often refers to other art. Indeed, it could be argued that the best art always carries subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, reference to its predecessors. I think it was Adorno who observed that even within modernism, which we think of as being essentially about breaking with the past, there was the reference to antiquity, a melancholy longing [...]
Not so suddenly… research.
It was wrong of me to suggest that research in the arts sector has been fatally tainted by self-interest, as I did in my last post. The problem is with the definition of self-interest. If a particular "self" has a problem that it needs addressed, then it helps if that "self" can demonstrate that the problem is real, show its dimensions, origins, [...]
Economic art
Rarely do artists know ahead of time how their work will read contextually. More often than not, I'd guess, they're prescient in some way, tapping early into the evolving collective consciousness. Case in point. How could Tonik Wojtyra and Ann Dean at Art Metropole have known back in 2007 that the economy would tank a year later, giving their [...]
What the people who work in artist-run centres know how to do.
Le Dictionnaire de compétences des travailleurs des centres d'artistes autogérés Publisher : RCAAQ Publication editor : Annie Gauthier French, 60 pages color, CD included, 2008 ISBN : 978-2-923021-03-4 $60.00 Does anyone really need read about how competent the people who work in artist-run centres are? Not really. Perhaps those who take [...]
Why Are Artists Poor? 2
Hans Abbing's book Why Are Artists Poor? should be assigned reading for every art student because it talks about the place of art and the artist in society in practical ways, from the viewpoint of the economist, somewhat objective, from ten stories up as Abbing puts it. Abbing, who is both a visual artist and an economist, gives us a view we in [...]
