“Industries” exist to collapse.

“Leaders” in the arts have long fought to have them thought of as industries. (I guess they wanted to be Leaders of Industry.)

Congrats, we’ve proved it! Industrial collapse!

To take the waves of lay-offs and closing personally is to ignore the social and economic systems we are entangled in.

3 non-linear phases

[Context note: Written in the summer of 2020 – early months of COVID 19 and a “racial reckoning” sparked by the murder of George Floyd in the USA and the confirmation of mass graves of children at Canadian residential schools.] Sparking, collecting, sharing. In the “shock” of the new perspective, we come to understand our […]