Clive Robertson is a media artist, curator, and cultural critic who teaches Art History, Cultural Policy, and Performance Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston.

This anthology is a valuable resource for working artists, arts administrators and policy-makers, and as a research tool for educators and students of cultural studies. Policy Matters demonstrates the significant political investments that artists, individually and through artist-run centres, collectives, umbrella associations and other formations have made and continue to make to arts policy.



Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. ARTIST-RUN CULTURE AS MOVEMENT AND APPARATUS

Artist-run Culture: Locating a History of the Present

Collective Consciousness as Network, Social Movement as Agent

Contestations and Legal Mobilizations

Technologies of Power and the Restructuring Discourse of ANNPAC/RACA

Custody Battles with/at the Canada Council

The Crown Corporation: Proximity Effects

The Planned Merger with SSHRC

Interview with Paule Leduc

The Strategic Plan: Accountability Regimes

Interview with Roch Carrier

The Collective Noun Model: Arm’s Length Status and Peer Assessment

Interview with Edythe Goodriche

The Career Imperative: Grants for Artists

2. CARING FOR ARTS AND CULTURE

Speaking Volumes: Documenting Mediations of Organized art, 1954-1996

Text Messaging: The Artwork, The Newsmedia, The Museum

Museum Acquisition Policies: Canadian Contemporary Art

Interview with Bruce Russell

Fuse Does News

Self-Censorship: Who Pulled the Penis? (1986)

Media Moments: Telling It Like It Isn’t (1986)

Appreciating Art: Simple Pasts and Future Perfects (2002)

Renaissance Pictures: Synergetic Capitalisms and the AGO (1993, 2006)

3. SUPPLEMENT

Karl Beveridge and Gary Kibbins: “Social and economic status of the artist in Canada” (1986)

Selected References

Name Index

Illustration Credits