Funding

November 10, 2008 nerulean

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  1. Sanny&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  I found some interesting info online about The Louise Blouin Foundation, which is currently raising money for international exhibitions on Tibetan and Chinese culture. This is intended to complement the $70 million(!!) injected by the Chinese government on cultural perservation projects aimed to promote Chinese culture and encourage dialogue between China and the West.
  This is an example of how public art can be used for political means and how governments are able to inject large amounts of funding to better relations with other countries where the means of political talks may have failed.

  But is public art an efective way of putting across a political message? Since art can be interpreted in so many different ways, perhaps the political message may be lost within the art? What do you guys think? x
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  2. Alex&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  That’s so interesting- I never thought about art’s message becoming lost in how people perceive something. Fitting in with your earlier post, what exactly does the angel of the north represent? Is it meant to represent anything at all? I can’t believe in the existence of art for art’s sake because that’s completely contradictory- even if you just want to create art then you have an ideology and a purpose.
  I believe that because everything in our lives is touched by ideology or politics that nothing can be created without being affected by this. But is all art a form of social commentary, and therefore is all art ‘public art’? What sort of art has nothing at all to do with the public?
  xxxx
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  3. Alex&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 8:49 pm

  p.s sorry, am bad at apostrophes, just realised the one in ‘art’s’ is wrong and was worried you’d all judge me!
  xxx
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  4. blueberryshrub&hellip  |  November 11, 2008 at 10:56 pm

  The Arts council unashamedly claims to fund the royal court (and pretty much everything) because it ties into community (LINKS PEOPLE LINKS)
  on their website they say:
  How the grant has helped the community and the region:
  The Royal Court’s education programme seeks to promote the voice of the playwright and encourage the voices of a new generation of young playwrights. Through a variety of education activities, both pre and post show, the Royal Court provides a full and varied programme with which students can engage.
  This goes to show that even if the play itself isnt politically orientated its funding and the way the theatre approaches it is in some way. even if this is just global community ect.
  am i making sense? oh so very tired! ill just bring it tomorrow and hope i make more sense then x x x
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  5. Rachael&hellip  |  November 12, 2008 at 1:41 am

  That’s really interesting Sanny – I think you make a valid point about the appropriation and reaction to political art – i suppose one way to look at it would be Kant etc as Art for aesthetic pleasure Versus Art with a ‘purpose’. If people are approaching the art simply looking at it ‘for art’s sake’ then it is likely that the message could be lost but look carefully at the publicity of it – does the publicity state its purpose? is the viewer ALLOWED to forget/be unaware of the reasons for the project. It’s likely that there are plenty of reminders surrounding it.

  ok loves will be honest i don’t think funding is particularly important to my project – i will of course look into it and bear it in mind but Learning to Love You More is essentially a ’self contained’ (i think thats the wrong word) project – not much funding is needed to run a website. but i’ll get on to it any way and see what i can dig up but any angles anyone can think of would be appreciated

  oh the one thing i was thinking of was with Lara’s point about arts council funding.

  Arts Council fund everything that they fund because it is community based. But not every community based project is funded.
  WHY? what are their elimination processes etc …this won’t be part of my project i don’t think but if it fits with anyone’s it might be a good thing to explore xx
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  6. Rachael&hellip  |  November 12, 2008 at 1:49 am

  yikes the ladies at LTLYM are so nice they aren’t claiming funding but GIVING IT AWAY. yes. there are ‘learning to love you more grants’ of $500 – they have been able to do this by redistributing the money recieved by one of the founding members of the team for winning an Arts Award. Interesting to note that there are no noted recipitents since 2006…
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  7. Sanny&hellip  |  November 12, 2008 at 4:42 pm

  Alex, in response to your comment, here’s a quote by Antony Gormley, the creator of The Angel of the North:

  “People are always asking, why an angel? The only response I can give is that no-one has ever seen one and we need to keep imagining them. The angel has three functions – firstly a historic one to remind us that below this site coal miners worked in the dark for two hundred years, secondly to grasp hold of the future, expressing our transition from the industrial to the information age, and lastly to be a focus for our hopes and fears – a sculpture is an evolving thing.”

  Therefore, we can see how the it is supposed to be a symbol of hope but does this come across just by looking at the sculpture? Certainly, it may result in a sense a awe purely because of it’s size but I for one would have never guessed its meaning. x
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  8. Sanny&hellip  |  November 12, 2008 at 4:43 pm

  P.S. No-one is judging you on the apostrophes! x
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  9. Hannah&hellip  |  November 18, 2008 at 8:48 am

  See, I’ve been looking over things on the net and most of what I’m finding says its funded by the arts council, but i’m thinking that can’t all be true…or at least it cant be true for everything. it got me thinking back to those film magazines i was talking to alex about in our seminar – the ones that review new releases and critic them, though are actually sponsored by certain film-making industries, i can’t think of an real example right now, but e.g. new line cinema, and always give very positive feedback to fims made by that name. im not convinced that this doesnt happen in the world of public art at all.

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