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March 2023 Dear Committee, Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications Inquiry into the National Cultural Policy.  We represent Reset Arts and Culture a collaborative group comprising the arts and cultural sector, policy makers and academics in South Australia. Reset is advocating for aContinue reading “Reset’s Submission to the Inquiry into National Cultural Policy”

10 September 2021 2 -7pm, at Waterside Workers Hall, Nile Street, Port Adelaide Register here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/reset-6-art-and-culture-after-the-creative-city-tickets-167403826351 The idea of the ‘creative city’ has its roots in the 1980s. In the face of accelerating de-industrialisation, the rise of grassroots social movements, alternative arts and new popular cultures held out the hope of a new kind ofContinue reading “Reset #6 Art and Culture after the Creative City”

Thursday 5 August 2021 4:00 to 6:00 pm Bradley Forum (H5-02), Hawke Building, City West Campus Dan Hill is Director of Strategic Design at Vinnova, the Swedish government’s innovation agency. A designer and urbanist, his previous leadership roles include Arup, Future Cities Catapult, Fabrica, SITRA and the BBC. He’s lived and worked in UK, Australia,Continue reading “Reset#5 Dan Hill: Slowdown-Reimagining the Infrastructures of Everyday life”

Thursday 15 July 2021 Bradley Forum (H5-02), Hawke Building, City West Campus Scott Ludlam: Full Circle and the Art of Panarchy The word ecosystem gets used a lot in arts and culture, in different and sometimes opposing ways. To help us think through this, Reset #4 hosted Scott Ludlam in a conversation about the ideasContinue reading “Summary of Reset#4: Art, Culture, Ecosystem”

CP3, Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Reset#5 Guest Lecture Dan Hill Sweden’s streets, Australia’s suburbs, Europe’s Bauhaus Thursday 5 August 2021 4:00 to 6:00 pm Location: UniSA City West Campus | Bradley Forum (H5-02), Hawke Building, and online Eventbrite: Register Here    Webinar link: https://unisa.zoom.us/j/85038633966?pwd=NEVNUCtRUCtPOHJqZWZnVm5jNXlaZz09 The global events of the last 18 months,Continue reading “Dan Hill | Slowdown: Reimagining the Infrastructures of Everyday life”

Thursday 15 July 2021 4:00 to 6.00 pm Bradley Forum (H5-02), Hawke Building, City West CampusAnd online via this webinar link Scott Ludlam says: Questions of climate and energy transitions have long been considered the domain of technologists and policymakers, engineers and executives. And so now we stand at the brink of collapse, with oldContinue reading “Reset #4 Scott Ludlam: Full Circle and the Art of Panarchy”

Recording available here [Reset: To turn a piece of computer equipment off and then on again when it does not work correctly, to make it start working correctly again.] For the last thirty years art and culture have sought to align themselves with the prevailing economic orthodoxy.  They presented themselves as an ‘industry’, a contributor to GDP,Continue reading “Reset #3: Art, Culture and Heterodox Economics”

Event title: Heterodox Economics and the Art and Cultural Sector. Date: 17 June 2021 4.30-7.30 Location: Bradley Forum, City West Kelly Dombroski (University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand) part of the Community Economy Research Network (CERN). Joint editor (with Katherine Gibson) of the Handbook of Diverse Economies. Discussion led by Tully Barnett (Flinders University) StevenContinue reading “Heterodox Economics and the Art and Cultural Sector”

This event was held at Adelaide City Lending Library, Rundle Mall, 7 May 2021 2.15      Bodies of Work: A Conversation between Ben Eltham (Monash; Guardian) and Bek Conroy. The harsh realities of cultural work are much more acknowledged now than a decade ago, as funding cuts and precarious working conditions meet unaffordable housing, higher rents,Continue reading “Reset #2: What What to do about Cultural Work after the Pandemic ?”

The impact of the pandemic on cultural labour in Australia. Federal and State responses. France and Germany examples. Understanding precarity. Responses from other precarious sectors and form other countries to the impact of the pandemic on art and culture. Ideas around (Universal) Basic Income; co-operatives, mutuals and employee ownership (CME) in the cultural sector. UnionsContinue reading “Rethinking Cultural Labour: What to do about cultural work after the pandemic”