Let’s Create - Responsibilities - Being accountable
Being accountable
Many artists contemplated and interrogated the notion of accountability as a responsibility and the myriad of people and institutions that the artist is responsible to when leading this work.
Some felt that artists need to have their own sense of to whom they are accountable when juggling potentially competing demands or priorities.
Quotes from the research
“I think the responsibility is to hold the voices and the hearts of the people you are working with in your head. Okay, that’s quite poetic. But I think that's the responsibility of who you are accountable to.”
“You have to be clear about your motivations and intentions for doing the work. Do you genuinely want to co-create or are you just after the latest bit of funding in order to support you to do your own practice? Do you actually have the depth of skills to do this work? One of the issues is that there is often no-one monitoring the quality of this work and whether or not artists have appropriate track record and skills in co-creation as it’s such a relatively new field. So who are you accountable to when you decide to do it?”
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Sarah Blowers is the founder and current co-artistic director of Strike A Light.
She has been an arts leader for over 20 years working extensively in schools, theatres, and communities, predominantly in areas of deprivation and always with local cultural and social leaders. Co-creation and the sharing of power and resource has always underpinned how she works.
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