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The problem is, how do you define "art"? How do you define which art is worth subsidizing? Am I eligible if I doodle on a piece of paper once in a while? What
by lbreakjai 8mo ago
The problem is, how do you define "art"? How do you define which art is worth subsidizing?
Am I eligible if I doodle on a piece of paper once in a while? What about if I decided to expose a urinal? Or paint a can of soup?
- stemlord 8mo agoyou can't really fake the labor that goes into mastering a craft any more significantly than one can fake labor at a white collar job, let alone some level of institutional involvement that any professional pursuit would end up with (i.e., showing a work at the gallery on main st or giving workshops at the community center), so this isn't actually that challenging of a question in practice. even with highly conceptual work there's still an involved studio/research practice to audit if your artistic practice is truly so abstract that you can't prove labor by any material means then you probably just won't get subsidized for it.