Assessing the impact of the C-19 emergency on the art and cultural sector, and responses to it by governments, cultural agencies and the sector.
Creative People, Products and Places (CP3) has been funded by the University of South Australia to engage Dr Jess Pacella to work with Professors Justin O’Connor and Susan Luckman on the 7 month postdoctoral project, ‘Keeping Creative: Assessing the impact of the C-19 emergency on the art and cultural sector, and responses to it by governments, cultural agencies and the sector’.
The project is further supported by in-kind support from our research partners: Cornelia Dümcke, CEO of Culture Concepts, Germany; Emma Fey, CEO of Guildhouse on behalf of the Australian Craft and Design Centres Network, Australia; and Esther Anatolitis, Executive Director of National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia.
The Project will assess the impact of the C-19 emergency on the art and cultural sector, and responses to it by governments, cultural (or other relevant) agencies and from the sector itself. The primary focus will be Australia, but there will also be comparison with New Zealand; the UK and Europe (including EU); and the Asia Pacific.
Working closely with partners the project will involve online published research, available databases and telephone interviews to ascertain:
- How has the virus already impacted on the arts and cultural sector, politically, economically and socially?
- How effective is any emergency funding offered to mitigate the social and economic impacts of Covid19 effecting the arts and cultural sector in these discrete territories?
- Who qualifies for support and who doesn’t – with what consequences?
- Does funding address the explicit needs of the sector in its specific context?
- What kind of arguments are being used to defend – or deny - the support offered?
- Are some areas of artistic and cultural activity being privileged over others?
- What are the future prospects for the sector – beyond support, and immediate crisis?
- What ideas, projects, concepts and vision for development and survival have emerged from the arts and cultural sector itself?
Research team
Dr Jessica Pacella, Prof. Justin O’Connor, Prof. Susan Luckman
Key contact
Dr Jess Pacella
