Over the last few years I have been thinking about a different way of approaching the commissioning of public art. From my perspective, as an artist, the process of open submission, shortlisting and occasional success is a really frustrating, resource consuming process. Although it could be argued that nothing is wasted in the process, ideas are recycled, there is a sense of a missed opportunity. It can feel on occasion that the commission process prevents artists from making work, because they cannot think of any other way of attracting funds to produce the work.
With the current funding position this pursuit of commissioning opportunities is a zero sum game, there is little opportunity so artists, commissioners, art professionals need to think of better ways of working together to make viable public art projects.
With this in mind I have set up DPAP Wiki, http://dpap.wikispaces.com/Proposal, where practitioners are invited to contribute to a core idea, which hopefully they will be able to incorporate into their practice.
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