"While public funds are poured out in feasts of brotherhood, a bell of rose-coloured fire tolls in the clouds." Rimbaud, Illuminations, translated by Oliver Bernard
Thanks for the share, Mark, and glad my post was helpful.
I'm unsure exactly where the ideological faultline is, or are, or how to shift the lever here. John Keats spoke of Shakespeare's "negative capability," the capacity to be in uncertainty without unnecessarily or prematurely grasping after truth. That capacity - to know what we don't know, or can't know - is essential to making art. What we're learning is that it is also essential to arts governance.
Consultancies like PWC must be happy indeed as the pursuit of perfect knowledge is, essentially, a contractual arrangement without end.
Thanks Mark. As insightful as always and incredibly pertinent to things I’m musing on around data at the moment. Has really helped. And valuable too, the fact that so much useful knowledge gets lost, often binned, knowledge gleaned from valuable schemes of work at substantial cost, because it’s not “new”. Having returned to Glasgow after 30 years I find it sad that so few people around me remember or even understand the huge investment the City made in culture that provided the groundwork for what the sector has now. Yes the City is broke. Yes Glasgow feels run down and there’s not much funding around. But so much went before that is still of value and people need to get over themselves a little, roll their sleeves up and start to rebuild as others did some 40 years ago. Again thanks.
Thanks for the share, Mark, and glad my post was helpful.
I'm unsure exactly where the ideological faultline is, or are, or how to shift the lever here. John Keats spoke of Shakespeare's "negative capability," the capacity to be in uncertainty without unnecessarily or prematurely grasping after truth. That capacity - to know what we don't know, or can't know - is essential to making art. What we're learning is that it is also essential to arts governance.
Consultancies like PWC must be happy indeed as the pursuit of perfect knowledge is, essentially, a contractual arrangement without end.
Thanks Mark. As insightful as always and incredibly pertinent to things I’m musing on around data at the moment. Has really helped. And valuable too, the fact that so much useful knowledge gets lost, often binned, knowledge gleaned from valuable schemes of work at substantial cost, because it’s not “new”. Having returned to Glasgow after 30 years I find it sad that so few people around me remember or even understand the huge investment the City made in culture that provided the groundwork for what the sector has now. Yes the City is broke. Yes Glasgow feels run down and there’s not much funding around. But so much went before that is still of value and people need to get over themselves a little, roll their sleeves up and start to rebuild as others did some 40 years ago. Again thanks.