- State funding comes with expectations (strings), namely fulfilling community cohesion roles as a proxy of the State
- HERE BE DRAGONS
(industrial cultural
complex)
Continuous funding and regulatory oversight brings stability but also reduces flexibility- Curators operating in this sector are always passing through on the way to institutional posts
The semi-organised, semi-funded cultural commons is a spot many artist-led projects recognise; perpetual precarity
The 'socially useful' space is an attractive spot to occupy for projects that want to demonstrate a utility to the 'community'
The more antagonistic to the establishment the artist-led project is the less likely it will have access to institutional support and funding. These projects are more likely to be peripatetic in nature
Within the Capitalist system value is gauged by the market. Here the artist-led project is geared towards a model of sustainability that necessitates navigating market sentiment- Many of the more institutional organisations seek to diversify income via retail oportunities like on-site cafes and bookshops
Projects that do not engage with the State but wish to be socially active may be sustained by membership fees or other independently sourced funding
One means of achieving independent sustainability is by operating an ancillary business on which the artst-led project can piggyback (artist studios for instance)- For some the artist-led sector is a brief staging-post on the way to the commercial sector. These projects are more comfortable being described as 'emerging'
HERE BE DRAGONS
(collectivist drift and mediocrity)- HERE BE DRAGONS
(creative alienation via
capitalist exploitation)
Artist-led alternative fine art schools are a reaction to issues of access - relating to fianancial, class and geographical barriers
On the individualistic end of the scale you may find the artist-led project as part of an artist's extended practice. These can tend towards the collective
This Quiz was inspired by The Political Compass and adapted from kmturley's source code
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