Creative Frictions : : Arts Leadership, Policy and Practice in Multicultural Australia.

• Author: Cmielewski, Cecelia.
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)

Creative Frictions explores the relationship between visionary aspects of practice and policy. Despite over 30 years of arts and cultural policy attention, there remains a widespread view among the general public and artists alike that creative production does not reflect Australia's culturally diverse population.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Table 1: Proportion of professional NESB artists in each artistic field, 2009 and 2015 -- Table 2: Expected and actual levels of representation of NESB artists in 2005 -- Table 3: Member organisations of kultour in 2000 -- Table 4: Longevity of multi-artform multicultural arts organisations -- Table 5: Chronology of multicultural arts policy at the Australia Council -- List of Illustrations -- Image 1: Annalouise Paul, Mother Tongue, 2014 -- Image 2: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019 -- Image 3: Hossein Valamanesh, The Lover Circles His Own Heart, 1993 -- Image 4: Hossein Valamanesh, Practice, 2006 -- Image 5: Lex Marinos, The Slap, 2011 -- Image 6: Konstantin Koukias, Sea Chant. Settlers, Ships and Saw‑Horses, 2001 -- Image 7: Hossein Valamanesh, This Will Also Pass, 2007 -- Image 8: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019 -- Image 9: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019 -- Image 10: Konstantin Koukias, To Traverse Water, 1995, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts -- Image 11: Sean Ly (director and videographer), Beyond Refuge: Flashbacks, 2016 -- Image 12: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019 -- Image 13: Annalouise Paul, Forge, 2016 -- Image 14: Hossein Valamanesh, Untitled Map, 2002 -- Image 15: Annalouise Paul, Mother Tongue, 2014 -- Image 16: Annalouise Paul, Isabel, 2008 -- Image 17: Annalouise Paul, Mother Tongue, rehearsal, 2014 -- Image 18: Konstantin Koukias, Tesla-Lightning in His Hand, 2003 -- Image 19: Lex Marinos, The Slap, 2011 -- Image 20: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019 -- Image 21: Bong Ramilo, Treasure Language Storytelling, performance, 2016 -- Image 22: Annette Shun Wah -- Image 23: Contemporary Asian Australian Performance Artists Lab brochure, 2020.

Image 24: Bong Ramilo with Pia De Compiegne, 1991, launch of the New South Wales Multicultural Arts Association -- Figure 1: Governance structure of the Australia Council, 2006-11 -- Figure 2: Art + Cultural Difference + Global Collaboration workshop -- Figure 3: Contemporary Asian Australian Performance and Playwriting Australia. Cycle of change using creative and organisational leadership -- Figure 4: Cycle of change using creative and organisational leadership -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Advancing Multicultural Arts: Policies, Problems and Practice -- Leading for the Arts in a Multicultural Australia -- Shaping the Discourse of Arts in a Multicultural Australia -- Creative Leadership: The Agency of the NESB Artist -- Challenges of Institutional Leadership: Reluctance in the Australia Council -- Organisational Leadership: Expanding the Multicultural Arts Milieu -- Epilogue: Towards a Supportive Multicultural Arts Milieu -- Appendix A: Participant Biographies -- Appendix B: Chronology -- Appendix C: Governance -- Appendix D: Art + Cultural Difference + Global Collaboration -- Appendix E: Cycle of Change -- References.