Hi Simon,
My tirade was mostly directed at continental Europe, but I didn't want to bog
myself down with qualifications, although I was thinking "this isnt really true
in the UK" at various points while I was writing.
I know the UK is, as I said, no Germany, although I do meet loads of people
I'd like to correct errors in Mattyo's post. The British Council does not fund
artists directly. It funds organisations to assist them to bring UK artists to
non-UK events. The objective is to promote UK culture overseas. They do not
cover artist fees. They will assist with travel and marketing
No French comments about this situation!/?
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As a New Yorker working in the digital arts who lived in the Netherlands for
seven years, I've seen both sides of this situation, and I'm familiar with some
of the Dutch institutions mentioned below. I have thought a great deal about
the differences between the European and American systems of
The state most certainly does have a hand in how this funding is
allotted, as
you've just seen in the Netherlands. Unlike the Judicial System,
culture and
the funding of it is not separated from the state and its interests.
What happened in NL is that the government put the advice of the a
Hi Josephine,
..on Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:09:58AM +0200, Josephine Bosma wrote:
> Unfortunately I do not have the time to go into debate about most of
> the presumptions and insinuations in Julian Oliver's text. Let me
> just say it seems written from prejudice rather than knowledge.
> Prejudice
Unfortunately I do not have the time to go into debate about most of
the presumptions and insinuations in Julian Oliver's text. Let me
just say it seems written from prejudice rather than knowledge.
Prejudice about how funding bodies work, for example. To simply call
them 'the state' or 'th
