fuck you Arts (1 Viewer)

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http://www.iftn.ie/rep_bodies/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4282329&tpl=archnews&force=1

 

[Goodbye]

Saw that earlier.

Fucking appalling.

 

[robitusson]

So what? This ain't new. Arts funding is an add-on, after-thought by the gov. and has never been taken really seriously.

The money gets wasted half the time on bullshitty projects by people who are in the loop and churning out the kind of approved-of crap that's clogging up galleries and cinemas anyway. What'll be lost? A few shitty art installations about "identity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland" in IMMA? Another video art piece of some leaves blowing over a mannequin with some crisp packets stuck on it?

 

[Hector Grey]

i was in the joinery last night, paid me door tax. that's how you fund arts. the government have never given a shit. the only successful "artist" of the celtic tiger generation is cecilia ahern...that should tell you all you need to know.

 

[quackster]

What'll be lost? A few shitty art installations about "identity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland" in IMMA? Another video art piece of some leaves blowing over a mannequin with some crisp packets stuck on it?

i thought the crisp packets were utterly inspired!

 

[brianoak]

So what? This ain't new. Arts funding is an add-on, after-thought by the gov. and has never been taken really seriously.

The money gets wasted half the time on bullshitty projects by people who are in the loop and churning out the kind of approved-of crap that's clogging up galleries and cinemas anyway. What'll be lost? A few shitty art installations about "identity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland" in IMMA? Another video art piece of some leaves blowing over a mannequin with some crisp packets stuck on it?

Nope, if they cut funding by 6.1 million what will happen is a lot of arts workers e.g. general managers, local arts development officers and arts education workers will lose their jobs. Their salaries are generally paid by operating grants dispensed by the Arts Council. If there are no professionals to run theatres/ dance companies or community arts projects then these will cease to exist. This will be hugely detrimental to an already to an already underfunded arts sector.

 

[the departed]

wheres the eject button? poxy cuntry.

 

[Goodbye]

So what? This ain't new. Arts funding is an add-on, after-thought by the gov. and has never been taken really seriously.

The money gets wasted half the time on bullshitty projects by people who are in the loop and churning out the kind of approved-of crap that's clogging up galleries and cinemas anyway. What'll be lost? A few shitty art installations about "identity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland" in IMMA? Another video art piece of some leaves blowing over a mannequin with some crisp packets stuck on it?

Who's voting this rubbish up?

 

[aoboa]

Are there not a load of 'artists' and arts groups who have been supported by the Arts Council for years despite the fact that they've done nothing of any significance for years (debatably ever)?
Are there also not a bunch of commercial organisations who also receive massive arts council funding every year depite the fact that they don't actually need it?

Let's be honest - a lot of funding goes towards maintaining the status quo from what I can see.

I am not against arts/film funding by the way. I'd like to see it go where it's needed - preferrably into the community and schools. Encouage it there.

 

[robitusson]

Let's be honest - a lot of funding goes towards maintaining the status quo from what I can see.

Fuckin' right.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

12 gold bars

 

[Goodbye]

Are there not a load of 'artists' and arts groups who have been supported by the Arts Council for years despite the fact that they've done nothing of any significance for years (debatably ever)?

Probably, could say the same for the amount of superfluous members of government there are also.

Let's be honest - a lot of funding goes towards maintaining the status quo from what I can see.

I am not against arts/film funding by the way. I'd like to see it go where it's needed - preferrably into the community and schools. Encouage it there.

Of course we don't need a society, just education and flowers in the roundabouts.

 

[Goodbye]

And furthermore:

Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board Statement Regarding Concern for the Irish Audiovisual Industry


Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board (BSÉ/IFB) is concerned that the recommendations in the Report of Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes (An Bord Snip Nua), as they refer to BSÉ/IFB, could have substantial and unanticipated negative economic consequences outside of the immediate public sector area that is the primary focus of the Report.

To be clear, the Report recommends the abolition of the Irish Film Board, the winding-up of its investment funds and the transfer of its enterprise functions to Enterprise Ireland.

Government funding, provided directly to the sector through BSÉ/IFB (€18.8m in 2009), is a key component of the entire audiovisual content industry. A recent survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers valued Ireland’s audiovisual content industry at over half a billion euro per annum and found that it now offers permanent employment to over 6,000 individuals. The industry in turn supports an ecology that generates many other indirect employment benefits arising out of production activities around the country.

The immediate loss of employment that withdrawal of BSÉ/IFB funding will cause is likely to cost the State in excess of the sought after savings. Further, the strategic importance of Ireland’s content industries to the creation of a Smart Economy – as described in the Government’s recent policy paper “Building Ireland’s Smart Economy” – is also at risk of being undermined.

The funding provided through BSÉ/IFB attracts additional finance that today supports an increasing level of private sector employment. The growth potential of the audiovisual content industry, as an essential component of the Smart Economy strategy, represents one of the best prospects of employment for young people seeking jobs in the future. For these reasons we believe it is important, in the context of the immediate crisis in the public finances, to ask Government to consider carefully the economic impact and employment consequences of this particular recommendation.

To be taken into consideration also are the consequences for Ireland if it were to become the only developed country in the world producing no films for the cinema, and thereby losing the most powerful tool available for establishing and sustaining its cultural identity abroad. It is well understood by all countries that the projection of an image of a country, its people and its way of life onto the screens of the world pays direct dividends in terms of inward investment, trade in goods and services, and tourism. Almost one in two US tourists to Ireland now state that their decision to come was triggered by seeing Ireland in the movies.

If the case for maintaining an Irish audiovisual content industry stands up, then we can demonstrate that BSÉ/IFB, through the accumulated knowledge and expertise of its staff, and their core competence in managing the business of creativity, is fit for today’s purpose. The effectiveness of the agency’s policies and the efficiency of its operation, at a cost of 10% of its total annual funding, compare favourably when benchmarked against similar agencies in other European and English-speaking countries, as well as against other Irish State Agencies.

From an email from the IFB

 

[snakybus]

12 gold bars

hahahaha

post of the week

 

[Goodbye]

hahahaha

post of the week

19th July 2009, 12:41 AM