Sheila McGregor argues that the path to ‘sustainability’ is never easy, nor free from ethical considerations.
There’s a lot of talk about ‘sustainability’ in the arts these days. It’s one of those buzz words that sounds warm, affirmative and vaguely ethical too, perhaps by virtue of its association with environmental activism.
You couldn’t possibly dissent from the view that sustainability is a desirable goal. Who wouldn’t want to run a sustainable organisation or have a sustainable artistic practice? Like Fair-trade coffee, it's self-evidently A Good Thing.
But when you stop to examine how sustainability might be achieved, the picture immediately becomes blurred. We generally use the word to describe the process by which organisations and individuals make enough money to support themselves... Keep reading on Axisweb
There’s a lot of talk about ‘sustainability’ in the arts these days. It’s one of those buzz words that sounds warm, affirmative and vaguely ethical too, perhaps by virtue of its association with environmental activism.
You couldn’t possibly dissent from the view that sustainability is a desirable goal. Who wouldn’t want to run a sustainable organisation or have a sustainable artistic practice? Like Fair-trade coffee, it's self-evidently A Good Thing.
But when you stop to examine how sustainability might be achieved, the picture immediately becomes blurred. We generally use the word to describe the process by which organisations and individuals make enough money to support themselves... Keep reading on Axisweb