http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2007/10/28/dont-take-government-money-says-jan/ Linking up Birmingham's Artistic and Creative Communities Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2007/10/28/dont-take-government-money-says-jan/#comment-3119 jan bowman Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:08:47 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=955#comment-3119 True, but I didn't say it was. I said on the Spiked piece: "...Artists have always had to work around their patrons’ whims and political agendas. However, New Labour’s social agenda is more intrusive than the most autocratic client could ever be. In the twenty-first century, the British state has unprecedented power to intrude into our personal lives, and does so in subtle and pervasive ways. We have anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) - allowing people to be locked-up for non-criminal behaviour; the ubiquity of closed-circuit television (CCTV), which seems to be omnipresent ‘for our safety’; smoking bans; lunchbox inspections; police checks on all adults working with children; mentoring programmes for prospective parents; and jail terms for saying the wrong thing in public - all in the name of ‘supporting the community’..." True, but I didn’t say it was. I said on the Spiked piece:
“…Artists have always had to work around their patrons’ whims and political agendas. However, New Labour’s social agenda is more intrusive than the most autocratic client could ever be. In the twenty-first century, the British state has unprecedented power to intrude into our personal lives, and does so in subtle and pervasive ways. We have anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) - allowing people to be locked-up for non-criminal behaviour; the ubiquity of closed-circuit television (CCTV), which seems to be omnipresent ‘for our safety’; smoking bans; lunchbox inspections; police checks on all adults working with children; mentoring programmes for prospective parents; and jail terms for saying the wrong thing in public - all in the name of ‘supporting the community’…”

]]> http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2007/10/28/dont-take-government-money-says-jan/#comment-2998 Dave Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:23:52 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=955#comment-2998 Valid point, but is subjectivity to commercial interests instead a genuinely independent alternative? There has never been model for sustaining artists within Capitalism which has been genuinely free from ideological subjectivity of some kind. Valid point, but is subjectivity to commercial interests instead a genuinely independent alternative? There has never been model for sustaining artists within Capitalism which has been genuinely free from ideological subjectivity of some kind.

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