Volume 8 (2022), Issue 2

Arts practitioners, including artists, are decisive participants in cultural policy and management processes. They carry collective and individual agency in shaping policies as they manage their careers and seek to influence their working...

This paper offers the framework of an agonistic politics of invitation to nuance the political implications of contextually- and temporally-specific cultural policy invites that bring to light a range of conflicts. Invitations are conceptualized...

Much has been written about artists' precarity and dependency on institutions. Precarity is a de-economisation of freelance artists and 'asymmetry' on which cultural economy and arts policy relies. Speculation early in 2020 was that Covid-19 drew...

In this article Soltero looks at the role of writers towards cultural policy in Mexico. Although artists generally do not participate in policy planning, some specific writers and their literary cenacles have been fundamental in shaping Mexican...

This paper argues for the importance of mixed research methods in capturing the voices and perspectives of artists to understand the territorial nature of cultural policy. A pilot study, Co-Motion: Dance and borders used an experimental,...

Ausgehend von den konzeptuellen Arbeitsansätzen der frühen künstlerischen Institutionskritik zeigt der Beitrag beispielhaft, wie Künstler:innen im Kampf um moralische und ethische Fragen im Kunstfeld immer mehr zu tonangebenden kulturpolitischen...

In March 2020, Michelle Ryan, Artistic Director of Restless Dance Theatre, an Australian dance company that includes both disabled and non-disabled dancers, was awarded Australia's highest dance honour by the Australia Council, the federal arts...

In this paper, Sarah Scarsbrook centralises visual artists in policymaking processes, foregrounding the ways artists influence and determine the policies that affect their lives, practices, and careers through their higher art education in London...

All over the world, Covid-19 revealed long-term issues concerning the structural vulnerability of artists and cultural workers. In Greece, during the first lock down, an independent initiative, Support Art Workers (SAW), brought to the spotlight...

Simone Wesner asks why Howard S. Becker's Arts Worlds continues to be of relevance to contemporary researchers on the 40th anniversary of this legacy work. She also discusses Alison Gerber's The Work of Art as the contemporary female voice capturing...

In this article, Jenny Fadranski, reviews the journal issue »Instituting Feminism« of the journal OnCurating.