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Class 3: The Arts Decree: an Open Framework (?) - Coggle Diagram
Class 3: The Arts Decree: an Open Framework (?)
General info
Support for
Professional arts
in different genres/disciplines
From
Flanders and Bxl
Long-term funding: Arts organisations
Short-term funding: Projects, grants, residencies, travel expenses
Government acquisitions contemporary art
changes: 2003 > 2013 > 2021
Guiding princliples
:red_flag:
Open & flexible framework for support
Respects the artistic identity of the applicant
Bottom-up dynamics
Who can apply?
Must be “involved with the Flemish arts scene”
Both Individual artists as multiple artists collaborating in
one legal organisation can apply :!:
Individual: project funding or grants
Organisation: project or multi-year funding
Audiovisual arts: YES for ‘multiple screen productions’ BUT NO for ‘single screen productions’
Transdisciplinary artists and arts organisations can
apply E
VEN IF the result is not recognizably ‘art’
BUT But: applications always need to relate to art and artistic quality + Obliged to work together with professional artists or organisations :!:
Museums (of contemporary art) are funded through Cultural Heritage Decree :!:
If collection management is a main objective
Multi-year funding only through one decree
BUT there are museums who receive funding specifically
for organizing exhibitions and artistic productions (e.g. Museum M in Leuven)
Participatory work with artists not traditionally recognized as ‘professional’ is possible
(e.g. amateur artists, audience members) :!:
Room for other goals (social, educational, …) than artistic
BUT must relate to artistic quality + professional artists must be involved
Arts Decree = for artists and organisations with
(inter)national ‘relevance’ or ‘appeal’
>> Not necessarily to be realised through touring + No quantitative criteria on number of (international) activities
How to apply?
select one or more (sub)disciplines
(Visual & audiovisual arts & photography, Music, Performing arts, Architecture and design...)
select one or more functions
(Development, Production, Presentation, Participation, Reflection)
Who decides?
Peer-review
by commissions
Professionals from the arts can apply for joining
Provide a proposal on: who is deserving of funding + how much for each
Assisted by the government administration
ULTIMATE DECISION
Multi-year funding for organisations:
The Government of Flanders
Project funding, grants, international projects,
art acquisitions:
Minister of Culture**
Residencies and refunding travel expenses: Government administration of Culture
:warning:
Between ‘at arm’s length’ and ‘primacy of politics
: Minister or Government provide account if they do not
follow experts’ proposals
Criteria
the quality of the project or organisation
as a whole
Artistic quality + Organisational’ (‘zakelijke’) quality !
Government administration also provides input for
assessing organisational aspects
BUDGET Multi-year subsidies
per discipline
1. Performing Arts
2. Multiple Disciplines 3. Music 4. (Audio)visual Arts 5. Transdisciplinary 6. Arc & Design
per function
:
1. Multiple
2. Production 3. Presentation....
per location
Arts Decree: until now
Strength
bottom-up dynamic
room for a broad range of artistic initiatives
Threat & weaknesses
Pressure on government expenditure on the Arts
What about the whole? Balances? (old and new, type of funding, locations, functions, disciplines....) :question:
NEW Decree
New procedures => dealing with balances?
Reform of
assessment procedures
Commissions are established
before
application deadline
11 commissions along
sub-disciplinary
lines. NEW: Pop + Rock + Alternative + Dance Music + Hip Hop/R&B, Jazz + Traditional music etc.
BUT Applicants need
to PICK ONE!!
:!:
VS old: Commissions based on number of applications in different
sub-disciplines and functions
Commissions work with a
determined available budget >> extra responsibility for commissions!
vs OLD: no explicit budgetary limit
BUDGET determined in relation to
: 1. Strategic priorities of the Minister of Culture 2. Amount of subsidies applied for per discipline 3. .....historical expenditure per discipline
Commissions can
rate
applications as
Negative
Positive within determined budget
Positive outside determined budget >> additional assessment by the ‘Landscape Commission’ (mere 5%!) >< Relevance for the entire ‘landscape of the arts’????
Introduction of longER-term funding
NEW - organization can apply for
10-year
term (2023-2032)
BUT ONLY IF
Had multi-year funding in current and previous term
currently funded for more than € 600.000
“exceptional” scale in its discipline
THEN Longer-term budget for the (‘older’) organisations
with longer funding history???
management agreement with the Flemish
Government
> additional tasks can be assigned >> MORE TOP-DOWN :warning:
New relation between short- and long-term funding
New: dedicated minimum share of expenditure for
short-term funding - = min. 12,5% of sum of short-term-funding and multi-year funding BUT this does not include budget for Art institutions >>
actually 8% of total
Combination of multi-year funding and project funding no
longer possible
Repercussions for openness and flexibility
:!?:
:pencil2: CONCLUSION
New procedures >>
space
for commissions and
policy makers
to rethink balances
in different ways
BUT that space is limited (budgetary limits!!)
remains a relatively open and flexible
framework BUT NEW LIMITS
New ‘mould’ of sub-disciplinary commissions for
applications
No more combining project and long-term funding
