..on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:21:32PM +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote: > Julian Oliver wrote: > > >> 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 meant contestable funding for individual artists. Insofar as it is > raining money, we don't need an umbrella group. I don't really think > its a perfect system, but it is the kind of nudge that we need to give > CNZ. I don't expect it to alter their course much, but to maybe hold it > against the sway of the big organisations pushing their own cases. In > other words, I think ADA should act as an artists' union in this > situation, not just another sector player. >
O.K, this all makes sense. I like the idea of an artist's union, something Adam, Marta and I talked about a few years ago. More of that/these/them! Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Berlin, Germany about: http://julianoliver.com _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
