When you are a pseudo intellectual PC socialist it is very hard to judge how worthy art is. But somebody without talent has to do it.
One thing is clear to such people though: you take tax money and you give it to those projects supposedly most artistically deserving. Thus, under new Arts Council requirements in the UK, organisations applying for grants are being asked to state how many board members are bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, lesbian or whose inclinations are “not known”.
Audrey Roy, the director of grants, said that the council needed to understand who its audience was and to whom its funding was going. “We see diversity as broader than race, ethnicity, faith and disability,” she said.
Actually, it almost seems as if they see diversity only in terms of sexuality.
Question 22 of the Grants for the Arts forms, relating to sexual orientation, was not compulsory, she added. Except the form states that it must be answered. Ah, "optional but mandatory" - a pseudo intellectual PC socialist that engages in double-think.
I call it performance art.
On the other hand, An asian Pakistani Muslim with one leg who happens to be a transsexual lesbian ballet dancer in thigh high leather boots is a shoo in for 50,000 quid to promote a one hour monologue featuring her screaming anti-feminist swear words at an audience of 18 that (according to the program guide) portray a deep sense of rejection of women's attempts to shrug off the "mother" caricature imposed upon the career female who ultimately faces emotional assault from the male archetype in the workplace.
Providing s/he can assemble a suitably diverse board of Directors to fill out the form. With special attention to question 22. Good old question 22. The mandatory optional one. Joseph Heller, how did you know?
"The council said that the answers were confidential and exempt from release under the Freedom of Information Act. It said that it does not issue guidelines on how to persuade board members to reveal details of their sex lives."
Glad we cleared that up.
Opening salvo quoted copiously from: Money for trisexuals
One thing is clear to such people though: you take tax money and you give it to those projects supposedly most artistically deserving. Thus, under new Arts Council requirements in the UK, organisations applying for grants are being asked to state how many board members are bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, lesbian or whose inclinations are “not known”.
Audrey Roy, the director of grants, said that the council needed to understand who its audience was and to whom its funding was going. “We see diversity as broader than race, ethnicity, faith and disability,” she said.
Actually, it almost seems as if they see diversity only in terms of sexuality.
Question 22 of the Grants for the Arts forms, relating to sexual orientation, was not compulsory, she added. Except the form states that it must be answered. Ah, "optional but mandatory" - a pseudo intellectual PC socialist that engages in double-think.
I call it performance art.
On the other hand, An asian Pakistani Muslim with one leg who happens to be a transsexual lesbian ballet dancer in thigh high leather boots is a shoo in for 50,000 quid to promote a one hour monologue featuring her screaming anti-feminist swear words at an audience of 18 that (according to the program guide) portray a deep sense of rejection of women's attempts to shrug off the "mother" caricature imposed upon the career female who ultimately faces emotional assault from the male archetype in the workplace.
Providing s/he can assemble a suitably diverse board of Directors to fill out the form. With special attention to question 22. Good old question 22. The mandatory optional one. Joseph Heller, how did you know?
"The council said that the answers were confidential and exempt from release under the Freedom of Information Act. It said that it does not issue guidelines on how to persuade board members to reveal details of their sex lives."
Glad we cleared that up.
Opening salvo quoted copiously from: Money for trisexuals
This http://hittingmetalwithahammer.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/meet-katie/ is performance art.
ReplyDeleteGive me money.
Did the Arts Council form ask applicants about their Boards/artists ethnicity or any other characteristic?
ReplyDeleteIf not, then only asking about sexual preference is clearly bigotry. That is, if the Arts Council do not ask about all major characteristics of humanity (ethnicity, religion, etc) then they cannot determine if the applicants are truly representative of the population.
Sounds like being an artist may become even more of a hungry occupation...