Hi
Just give us the money. Make it easier
to apply for and acquit from. Oh, and give some to ADA too.
When you say "us", who do you mean? Are you proposing a more general
submission
such that ADA, as a group of artists, is given money to spend on
their own
projects, whatever they may be, before the aquittal is due?
I think Douglas is meaning 'us' as in individual artists. He is, I
think, arguing that as a strategy CNZ should be investing in artists
them/ourselves, and that the processes of getting and acquitting
funding should be easier. I don't think he's talking about ADA being
funded on behalf of its member artists, and that certainly wouldn't
make sense.
or... what are you saying douglas?
I think ADA should act as an artists' union in this
situation, not just another sector player.
That we should be agitating on behalf of artists? (which is a good
point)
I'm not sure what you mean in relation to the acquittal Julian -
doesn't the money always arrive and get spent before it is acquitted
for?
Funding for ADA to further spread its reach, invest in itself, an
ADA event,
perhaps a group exhibition, sounds more tenable however.
Indeed, and ADA does + has received money for this kind of thing
several times now - a number of symposia, a book and the Clouodland
exhibition at ISEA were all funded by CNZ + organised by the ADA trust
board to support + promote the digital arts in + from Aotearoa. The
trust will continue to do this, and we can and should have a specific
conversation about projects that ADA itself could + should be doing
The thing is that this submission process, in my understanding, isn't
about specific projects or specific project funding, it's about
strategies that CNZ could + should be following in its support for the
arts in new zealand - it's about CNZ not ADA, about strategies not
specific projects.
If so bear in mind that not everyone that constitutes ADA is an
artist, far from
it, it seems..
ADA includes artists, curators, educators, writers, and audiences (and
most members occupy a number of those subject positions). The projects
that ADA has organised and received funding for in the past has tended
to cater for and support all of these practices in varying
combinations, and that seems pretty ideal to me, personally (and to
the ada trust I hope).
All said, a submission from ADA, in self-interest as an internally
adminstered,
registered organisation, presents a strong position in itself.
Well, the ADA board will put together a submission on behalf of the
board - the internally administered, registered organisation aspect of
ADA.
What Douglas was suggesting though is I think more powerful than that
alone. After the excellently involved + passionate discussion of the
past week we have a fantastic collection of ideas + visions for
aspects of practice + support in nz, and I don't think anyone would
want to claim to be able to speak for all of those positions in any
coherent manner.
So, please, everyone, send in a submission as a member of ADA,
outlining whatever you believe to be the most productive strategy CNZ
could possibly plan for. And as Douglas said, send it to the list as
well if you like. Then we can all share + continue to spin this
discussion off into whatever interesting pathways we can find.
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.
best
zita
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