I'm pleased there is no consensus over this strategic plan. Having nothing to submit is a relief. If any of you want to put in individual responses, they have a dinky form here (word document):
http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yof1QKw4WtE%3d&tabid=4910&language=en-NZ and more information about the whole thing here: http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/WhatWeDo/StrategicPlan/StrategicPlanPublicConsultation/tabid/4910/language/en-NZ/Default.aspx Somewhere there is a draft strategic plan. Its first sentence begins "Creative New Zealand is not proposing any major changes..." so I didn't bother reading further. Submissions are due on Friday. Regarding last week's entertaining thread, it seems that the constant theme behind the various wishes was a sort of postponement of art. Nobody was talking about any work they might want to make, or their reasons for making it, or processes, or any actual problems or anything. It was all preconditions, stuff that needs to exist so that art can begin, setting the stage for "content" to arrive. But as artists we know it isn't like that: by definition, we have already started. It also seemed like everyone was thinking about somebody else, or at least framing their thoughts that way. The labs will give new artists a better social life; the bus will give country people an edifying startle; the recycled computers will be used by someone without laptops like ours. It is good to want to be good, but everyone does that. What makes us artists is that we make art, now, and if we make a submission, I think it should focus on our actual needs in our existing practises. Nobody else is going speak for us: they'll be upping their own greedy little sectors. What I could personally do with is more time to make work. Following Marx or whoever, time is money, so I'm inclined to say that CNZ should just give more money to artists. Forget capability building and engagement in the arts and infrastructure and advocacy and audience development and leadership and national identity and developing potential and all that stuff. Just give us the money. Make it easier to apply for and acquit from. Oh, and give some to ADA too. Now maybe I'm just being a contrarian idiot. Or maybe I'm right. But don't tell me. Fill out the form linked above and send it to [email protected]. CC us if you want. Douglas _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
