Susan Jones reflects on whether higher education institutions are the best partners for the contemporary arts.
A discussion paper presented by Sarah Fisher, interim director at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, set the scene at the Cultural Knowledge Ecology conference in Liverpool.
In it were a glittering array of case studies – among them Northumbria University partnering with Baltic, London Met with Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Liverpool John Moores with FACT and the Liverpool Biennial. The next era of "evidence-based policy-making," Fisher confirmed, requires "robust, independent [arts] research". Higher education institutions (HEIs) are part of ensuring this happens... (Click here to read more)
A discussion paper presented by Sarah Fisher, interim director at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, set the scene at the Cultural Knowledge Ecology conference in Liverpool.
In it were a glittering array of case studies – among them Northumbria University partnering with Baltic, London Met with Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Liverpool John Moores with FACT and the Liverpool Biennial. The next era of "evidence-based policy-making," Fisher confirmed, requires "robust, independent [arts] research". Higher education institutions (HEIs) are part of ensuring this happens... (Click here to read more)