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I was thinking about ways in which artists might be empowered. At one time this meant the building of alternative spaces and declarations of autonomy, but many artists work with technology so as not to have to deal in real-world spaces. I don't subscribe to this tendency myself, but this ambivalence to context is perhaps one reason why there doesn't seem to be any common front among artists using computers. I wonder if the Labculture model might have something to offer. http://www.labculture.net/ the idea is to create a network as well as an intense learning and sharing experience, resolutely outside the academic model. "Feral scholarship" i suppose you could say, to borrow a phrase. There is funding which comes from arts boards etc but the results are both unpredictable individual and practice-centred. It has an internationalist edge too. gair dunlop www.gairspace.org.uk Cumbernauld: Town for Tomorrow www.cumbernauld.nu |
Title: want and power
