Risky Business…

Our next Creative Matters edition on RISK will include a special section of your responses to the following questions: 

1. How does the increasing bureaucratisation and brand-safeguarding against risk in the neo-liberalised university curtail creative and intellectual experimentation, and what strategies might creative practitioners in academia employ to resist this institutional anxiety?

2. What role can artistic and curatorial practices play in exposing and challenging the mechanisms of self-censorship and executive cancellation within academic institutions, particularly in contexts where external political pressures dictate cultural programming?

3. In what ways has the contemporary university become an arena for the spectacle-driven culture wars, and can the concepts like agonism and dissensus help rehabilitate frameworks for creative discourse?

4. If the university is irretrievable as an incubator for exploring challenging, and even dissenting and provocative ideas, what alternative spaces or methodologies become necessary to sustain and protect radical creative inquiry that doesn’t just speak to the initiated, but also engages audiences across the political spectrum in critical debate?

Take your pick or answer them all! Short, long, whatever your mood and flavour. 

Write to us! editor@ddca.edu.au BY THURSDAY 17TH APRIL 2025


From the guest editors, David Cross and Cameron Bishop

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