A public conversation in November 2021 commissioned by Proforma for Desire Lines and facilitated by Chris Bailkoski brought together Jack Ky Tan and Susan Jones. Read extracts from this discussion that explored how misconceptions and imbalances in the arts ecology limit artists’ status, pay and livelihood chances and what needs to happen to ensure artists can live a flourishing life through art practices over a life cycle.
“A flourishing life is one in which a person’s capacities and talents have developed in ways that enable them to pursue their life goals, so that in some general sense, they have been able to release their potentials and purposes. In terms of health, that is more than just an absence of disease. It embodies a positive idea of a physical vitality that enables people to live energetically in the world and implies a positive, robust, realisation of one’s capacities.” Erik Olin Wright (2019) How To Be An Anti Capitalist In The 21st Century, Verso.
To read the published text courtesy of Proforma go to https://www.proforma.org.uk/de…