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Why Lyn Gardner is Right
Lyn Gardner very recently wrote an article about public funding and its implications for art/artists.
To sum it up: we need to keep making, even if no funding initially means no visibility. If we don't, performance will stagnate. More than it already has. Not making work, because we feel we can't without Big Brother's charity, is no excuse. We should instead welcome unfundedness with a "we'll show those fuckers" mentality.
I say Gardner is right.
Public funding is a very wonderful thing - and something that, along with others, I am prepared to fight to defend - but I sometimes wonder about the work that doesn't get made because of a lack of funding. Dependency is not good for artistic health; it stops work being made (when I hear artists say "we didn't get the funding so we won't be making the piece" I often think "why don't you make it anyway?"), and it creates a system of control over what is made. The shows that we never see because they never got past the grant application stage may have been the ones that would have changed the way we think about theatre.
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Milkman says:
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4 April, 2010 - 13:23
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