Merriman, Victor and Black-Frizell, Sarah (2023) Weights and Pressures: Precarity And Democracy’s Legislative Subjects. Kritika Kultura, 40. ISSN 2094-6937
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Abstract
When Sarah Black-Frizell and Karen Gallagher announced Our Dance Democracy in 2018, the idea that an art form, constituted in ephemeral moments of live performance, could speak to and embody democratic aspiration appeared straightforward, even obvious. In the Global North, many dancers were experiencing fallout from the emaciation of inherited public institutions, by decades of deficit
culture and bureaucratic managerialism. The liberal ideal of equal citizenship before the state – Western democracy’s core mode of belonging – has demonstrably been eviscerated by the conditionalization of rights and entitlements. In these circumstances, Our Dance Democracy provoked questions about an institutionalised system of social governance which itself condemned dance and dancers to shaping and mediation by bureaucratic forms wholly inappropriate to the
development of artform, artists, and innovative artefacts. As Rosemary Cisneros, Simon Ellis, and Rowan McElland put it, The abstract concept of creative industries was constructed to make sense of—and indeed simplify—the (arts) world through a particular fiscal lens, and in turn becomes concrete through institutional use and repetition. The values that are oriented towards economic benefit
and the exploitation and accumulation of intellectual property through market-based rationalizations thereby infect how the lives and work of artists are felt, seen, and understood.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is the author's accepted manuscript version of an article that has been accepted for publication in Kritika Kultura. The final version is available from: https://ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/570/7387 |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Black-Frizell |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2023 09:44 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2023 15:40 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3775 |
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