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THE coronavirus pandemic has had devastating impacts on artists and the entire art and culture sector during 2020 and these effects continue into the present year.
The cultural industries not only make a significant contribution to the economy but are essential for the well-being and quality of life of the whole nation and will need to play a vital part in any recovery in the country.
Artists’ Union England is the collective voice of artists living and working in England, who work across disciplines including visual art, applied arts, socially engaged art, moving image, sound, and performance.
We are calling on the government to act urgently to address the impacts of the pandemic on our members and those working in the wider cultural sector, and to prioritise the following key measures:
RECENTLY on these pages, trade-union leaders and activists like Clara Paillard from PCS and Theresa Easton from Artists’ Union England have talked about the importance of cultural democracy and the cultural struggle for working people.
And in the recent interview with Mark Taylor, one of the authors of Culture Is Bad for You, he talked about what trade unions could do about inequalities regarding class, race and gender in cultural production, consumption and representation. What s your take on these issues?
I very much agree with the focus on class-based inequalities that all three of them pointed to. Cultural production and consumption in Britain is grossly unequal, and it is scandalous that the enjoyment of publicly funded cultural experiences by the better-off is subsidised, through general taxation and lottery funding, by those with fewer economic and social resources.