AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE: THE ARTS END OF THE RECESSION

“From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne, the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs drying up, businesses closing, incomes evaporating and people fast becoming un or underemployed are mounting around me.

Somewhere beneath it all it reminds me just how much of the culture that I find interesting is the product not of the big budget top end of town but of the unique possibilities of the downside of the economic cycle. It seems obvious to me that in cultural policy—as with almost everything else—changing times call for changing approaches.” Read More.