PublishedCurrency House, August 2014 |
ISBN9780992489007 |
FormatSoftcover, 88 pages |
Dimensions2.1cm × 13.7cm |
To
celebrate Platform Papers' tenth anniversary, writer and theatre director
Wesley Enoch takes a forensic overview of where the performing arts are going
in Australia, why they are no longer seen as integral to a healthy and
confident society. He finds the arts community ridden
with mistrust, and fearful of those who speak out. Australia, he concludes, is
in great need of cultural leadership; of a fresh force to challenge thinking
and gather confidence. `With the growth of government-led cultural leadership
we have seen the voices of the mob, the dissenters and the opposition slowly
becoming tamed and included in a sort of official culture', he says. `Government
champions the arts more these days than artists do.' For a solution he looks to
the elders of his Indigenous community, where debate is strong and loyalties
deep. They are the custodians of our values and our history.
