Re: [microsound] O Canada

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly why I made an important change in my personal art pratice about 3
years ago. I found my self out of peer pressure from other fellow candian
audio artists to have forgotten what I was doing and found my self wrapped
up in figuring out where my next grant was coming from. It was really
silly to be honest with you, after some time of thinking about it long and
hard I decided to leave the institutional arts community (ie art making
that is for the galleries and other funded arts orgs) and took my work to
a more DIY level of things. In doing so I have discovered a whole lot of
other artists who work in a similar manner, producing quality work with
out the help of public funding sources to squash thier creative process.
Toronto has a very healthy audio/sound/radio art community as does
Montreal. You should (if you have not already) come down to check it out
some time.

Neil...


On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, virginia maryland wrote:

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>Having tooled around the Banff Centre and elsewhere recently I'd say that
>the entire Canadian arts establishment might profit from a good kick in the
>teeth, at least as far as funding goes:
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>I've met self-described "sound artists" who hardly ever finish pieces and
>yet manage to receive grant after grant from multiple agencies....
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>And the bulk of grant money for experimental music goes to professionals,
>who are arguably putting out the least interesting/relevant material....
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>It almost seems like the bad old tax shelter days of the Canadian film
>industry, if you're familiar with that... for the rest of you, it goes
>something like this: throw lots of money at the domestic film industry, get
>lots of really bad films ("Porkys" anyone?)
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>Now, art isn't just about money....
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>But right now it seems like the most important stuff gets no money at all,
>which is utterly backwards.
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>>>shes recently condemmed the entire artist run culture in Canada
>>>becasue the Toronto max users group was tring to put together a nato work
>>>shop and didnt like the fact that we asked jeremy to host it...
>>>insane women she is!
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