Gregory Sholette’s article which was referenced in Brochure was originally published in 2001. Through the ‘Critical Voices’ initiative commissioned by the Arts Council. Following a visit in the summer of 2001 he returned to present the paper later that year.
His 7 basic proposals for encouraging a sustainable visual arts culture in Galway are interesting for two reasons. Firstly, they are very attainable. Secondly, in some cases the proposals have been realised.
They are included in this issue to make clear some of the progress that has been made, and to highlight that concerted effort in the future could easily build upon this.
Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of the artists’ collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution and REPOhistory, as well as co-editor of The Interventionists: A Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (MassMoCA/MIT Press, 2004, 2006) with Nato Thompson, and of Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 with Blake Stimson, (University of Minnesota, 2007). He frequently collaborates with the artist Janet Koenig and is currently working on a book about the political economy of the art world and his concept of creative dark matter for Pluto Press. He is Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Art and Art History at Queens College.
