ใArtists Running: 50 Years of Scottish Cultural Devolutionใ
The article covers the relationship between Scotland’s emerging artist-run organizational culture and its long-established Unionist-nationalist arts institutions. Under the influence of culture and history of different ages, it has different influences on Scottish contemporary art.
As Neil said, finding the right studio accommodation was a problem. Artists organized in Scotland’s emerging industrial wasteland, building affordable working artist studios in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow in 1977.
As Scotland was established, large-scale manufacturing emerged, and as galleries increased in number and size, the capacity for more artists to work in Scotland was established.
๐Governance Of The Possible
Reshaping the Network calls for alternatives to reimagine the European art ecosystem, drawing inspiration from the practices of artists and art workers through a co-writing process.
A call to institutions, arts funders, governments and artists to join in the paradigm shift from the survival of the individual to the collective survival of life, liberty and justice, hoping to return to the etymological sense of conspiracy, breathing together, and even the more general sense of “conspiracy” .
This organization hopes to be part of an ongoing, active process established through wider collective dialogue, sharing some collective practices and resonating with others who demand and implement collective, open, playful, joyful and resistant forms of governance.
GOTP — refers to possible construction. They no longer set out to live up to an imposed ideal of artistic excellence, no longer overly mobile, no longer strive to represent the country. By practicing GOTP, you free yourself from the struggle for your own work or the survival of your individual cultural organization.
