Friday Selection Box: 4th February 2022

Culture in Crisis: impacts of Covid-19 on the UK cultural sector and where we go from here

Some salutary findings, well worth the read.

19 things I learned from a stay at Burnout Hotel

A very personal and insightful account. Even if you don’t read it all you might find the diagram of Prof. Marie Abserg’s Exhaustion Funnel model illuminating. It’s notable that what we lose first is play.

Shift the Power: Manifesto for change

Made me wonder what the cultural sector equivalent would be.

In short, we want a future that is negotiated, participatory and widely owned…

Do Your Future Self A Favour: Finesse Tomorrow’s Commitments Today

Some great pointers, I love the point about waiting for ‘the schedule fairy to bestow a couple of days for distraction-free work.’

No Jobs in the Arts: Flippin’ heck, we’ll make our own creative opportunities then!

Definitely an event I’ll tune into (Wed, 16th Feb, 18:00GMT)! You can book here.

If you haven’t come across them before you might want to take a look at some of the No Jobs in the Arts projects.

Karla Black: Modern Art Bury Street

Intriguing looking, pared back show by Karla Black.

For the past twenty years, Karla Black has been making sculptures that explore the physical and psychic properties of the materials that populate her everyday life. Black’s sculptures come from modest means: paper, cellophane, cosmetics and other household, ready-to-hand substances (bath bombs, Gaviscon, soil, polystyrene, Sellotape, and Vaseline, for example)…