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Sebastian Henry-Jones
Though it principally shapes the conditions in which all art is produced – in Sydney, across the relatively recent colony called ‘Australia’ and most of the world today – and though it is the root cause of all of the issues that we have made art about over the last 15 or so years; Capitalism, the economic system under which we live, is something that we never really explore in depth through our work in the arts. We are very good at listing the challenges that arts workers and artists face; not being able to make a living from our work, the cost of living, the nature of burnout, grant cycle churn. Though when it comes to doing what art should do best – imagining other possibilities and ‘alternative futures’ as so many exhibition texts claim – somehow we fall short.^1 We talk a lot about collective work, but in an industry within an economic system where competition on a...More
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Reap what you sow
Sebastian Henry-Jones
Though it principally shapes the conditions in which all art is produced – in Sydney, across the relatively recent colony called ‘Australia’ and most of the world today – and though it is the root cause of all of the issues that we have made art about over the last 15 or so years; Capitalism, the economic system under which we live, is something that we never really explore in depth through our work in the arts. We are very good at listing the challenges that arts workers and artists face; not being able to make a living from our work, the cost of living, the nature of burnout, grant cycle churn. Though when it comes to doing what art should do best – imagining other possibilities and ‘alternative futures’ as so many exhibition texts claim – somehow we fall short.^1 We talk a lot about collective work, but in an industry within an economic system where competition on a...More
