1. Artists will need to be tenacious to survive. We must avoid, however, confusing tenacity with talent, and think about the quality of the work as well as the development of business-smarts.

2. We must work to develop a local audience, and revel in the localness. Arts organisations, lacking in programming money for international work, must support us.

3. We must find alternative means to connect to global practices, particularly through working with other artistic communities or scenes that are poor of money but rich of joy.

4. We must not deride those who have jobs outside of their artistic practice, for that will be the norm.

5. We must expand our notion of ‘production values’.

6. We must take advantage of the fact that no funding means no ticky-box audience development, but we should think about how best to develop our audiences and what that means.

7. We must reconsider how we validate work outside of the presence of a funders’ logo.

8. We must think more about why we are making what we are making and whether it is worth our time and effort.

9. With training and education funds for the arts diminished, we must try to help ourselves and each other self- and co-educate.

10. We must try to enjoy the freedoms that lack affords.

A Coffee Morning was held at Chisenhale Dance Space, London, on 4 February 2011. Ten independent artists, from dance, theatre and live art, discussed what ‘postfundingism’ might be and do. These were not the result of the conversation but are my personal responses to some of the issues that were raised. I propose them as statements with which to think.