Le Merle — Vol. 3 n° 1 — Été 2015

In 2011, a right-wing coalition government in the Netherlands announced drastic cuts in public support for the arts and culture as part of an austerity agenda. Absent an effective opposition, the government succeeded in cutting the funding of numerous projects, gutting cultural organizations that were vital to the cultural milieu. Artists, writers and cultural workers discuss the circumstances, the effects of the cuts, and what dampened artists’, students’ and political groups’ attempts to fight them. This issue draws attention to the circumstances, but also to the various artistic and political initiatives that emerged from that struggle. Edited by Edith Brunette & François Lemieux as part of their exhibition Cuts Make the Country Better, presented in 2015.

Aetzel Griffioen, Alexandre Poulin, Edd Schouten, Koen Brams, Gaby Felten, Rune Peitersen

Le Merle

2015

French, English

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