Messing Around.

Within increasingly bureaucratized creative markets and academic research domains, it may become harder for many artists and designers to navigate the thin line between obedience to assistive organisations, whilst maintaining courage to disengage from, or even denounce them? The complexities of diminishing central funding means that available options for artists and designers to exercise profligacy and risk also contracts.

Rather than current pettifogged perceptions of ‘streamlining’ applied to the arts and creative freedoms, there is need for more balancing and curative initiatives for expanding creative itineraries, as opposed to just officially prescribed or defined routes.

An inconvenient aspect for some is that creativity is often messy in nature, and needs to find new knowledge and new language through states of mess. In turn, this mess can be indispensable for the enrichment of humanity, and can instruct society and culture, both visually and conceptually, and create new value and markets. Yet curiously, governing bodies choose to progressively strip away and denude support and nourishment for the arts, which in turn can denude wider creative recognition, education, and intelligence.

What a very peculiar thing to do.