Chris Freemantle comments on AHM Symposium 2

For Chris' comments on the AHM Symposium in Edinburgh, please visit his blog at http://chris.fremantle.org/ or see below:

Sometimes it takes a little while

or, How has Scotland changed?

AHM‘s second State of Play Symposium was a very different affair from the first. Held in Edinburgh in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre of the National Galleries of Scotland, it was comfortable, elegant, sophisticated and at the heart of the establishment.

In November when we first met at the invitation of AHM to discuss the state of play, it was in the lecture theatre at Gilmorehill in the University of Glasgow. It felt edgy, not least because the technical staff had just been handed redundancy notices, but also because it was a week before Westminster’s “budget of cuts.” There was talk of organising. Philip Schlesinger outlined the cultural policy context for the formation of Creative Scotland, describing clearly the increasing economism that has resulted in the arts being transformed into the creative industries, with all the entailed lack of criticality. Peter McCaughey told everyone to join the Scottish Artists Union (and this still applies).

For the second event AHM had invited ex-pat Scots to speak.

BLOG UPDATES - Video Documentation from AHM Symposium 2

After hours of editing, the video files from the last AHM Symposium in Edinburgh earlier this month are ready to be uploaded to the blog. Over the next few days you will be able to view video footage from the symposium here on the AHM blog.

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