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The priority of subsidies should be given first to educational initiatives invitations of theoreticians and photographers for seminars in Greece or abroad organization of workshops combination of exhibition and educational activities etc. and these sectors should not be left to the sad presence of KEKs secondly to production of a photographic work requests for the production of an original work thirdly in the strengthening of photographic publications it could also be done by purchasing copies for distribution in school libraries and only fourthly in the organization of exhibitions. On the contrary the promotion of the project has the first place today.
The reasons are firstly that viewing is easier The judgment for the grants and the assessment of the proposals will be undertaken by a committee of people from the artistic photography field not the trade photo background removing union or commercial who will rotate on it every year with the participation of course and representatives of the Ministry. are not aimed at the politics of a party. I am sure that any party in power and perhaps not only in Greece would manifest the same embarrassment and commit the same errors. The State has only realized in recent years that it has a role to play in the field of art and is still looking for it.
Charismatic presences such as that of Malraux in France or Melina in Greece are not answers. Cultural policy needs deeper study and should not be based on charismatic exceptions. Art as a space with unclear boundaries and even more unclear criteria has always generated tensions and conflicts. Now that state funds have been added tensions have taken on clearer justifications. The State must move with the following general thoughts and directions First with the belief that people individuals make art. Neither the state nor the institutions. Secondly that if he can he should ease their financial obstacles by strengthening their efforts under the inviolable condition that they themselves participate.
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發表於 2022-10-23 14:31:26