Difference between revisions of "The Substation Town Hall"
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* Who owns The Substation? Reason stands that it should be the artists who feel ownership of The Substation, yet in reality the building is owned by the government (arts housing), and all of its higher executive decisions are made by its Board, whose ministrations largely remain opaque to the artists within its space. The Board tasks the artistic director to make artistic decisions which affect the community within it. But it has been shown that | * Who owns The Substation? Reason stands that it should be the artists who feel ownership of The Substation, yet in reality the building is owned by the government (arts housing), and all of its higher executive decisions are made by its Board, whose ministrations largely remain opaque to the artists within its space. The Board tasks the artistic director to make artistic decisions which affect the community within it. But it has been shown that | ||
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* Will there be continuation of Partial Support or Venue Support?: In the past, many artists who did not get full support for their projects were sometimes helped by partial substation venue support, which helped make a lot of projects possible. Under the open season, will there still be partially supported events like in the past? | * Will there be continuation of Partial Support or Venue Support?: In the past, many artists who did not get full support for their projects were sometimes helped by partial substation venue support, which helped make a lot of projects possible. Under the open season, will there still be partially supported events like in the past? | ||
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Revision as of 13:51, 29 February 2016
IMPORTANT NOTE: the content in this page is not mine only but has been compiled from recent discussions with a number of other artists/art workers and also from other shared google docs.
it was difficult to grasp the enormity of it all the issues so i thought it would be beneficial to divide it into questions on different levels. I have reorganised and typed it out in the hopes of providing some useful starting points for thinking about The Substation.
Executive | Operations | Curatorial |
The Board
Ownership
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Labour and Fair renumeration for artists and artworkers: With a so-called lean team at hand, where do they draw the distinction between artists as practitioners and artists as part time staff? At the interest of creating programmes with artists, how are artists compensated fairly? And how do we address issues of rights of the programme?
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Process
The Public Voice
Inclusivity of communities
Cabinet of Curiosities (Current AD has proposed a "cabinet of curiosities". details are still forthcoming)
Difficult questions: The Substation's direction now seems to be one that encourages artists to deal with "difficult questions" and think critically about society at large, and to reassess perhaps the stakes artists have in society. Difficult questions, surely, will include issues the state will not be willing to confront including operation coldstore, operation spectrum, josef ng, lack of democracy, 377a, labour rights, human rights, queer communities, capital punishment just to name a few. Will substation be ready to support artists who wish to deal with these concerns? |