http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/04/shop-talk-clark-buckner/ Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/04/shop-talk-clark-buckner/comment-page-1/#comment-106636 Christian L. Frock Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:38:24 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=26796#comment-106636 In the spirit of providing greater context, I feel compelled to elaborate on my use of the term “anti-grant.” Invisible Venue was a recipient of an Alternative Exposure Grant awarded by Southern Exposure in 2008. While I count myself lucky to have had my work validated in this way, I also recognize that my work largely falls outside most grant stipulations. I regard grants as potential windfalls—not strategies. The profound lack of public subsidies for the arts in the United States, as Buckner termed it, is for me an accepted limitation in the strategic development of new autonomous models in cultural production. In truth, I am not anti-grant (note to the MacArthur Foundation: feel free to call anytime), I simply recognize that they are a limited resource and that time is better spent focusing on alternatives fueled by innovation and self-reliance.

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