David Pledger
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‘Performing’ climate leadership
David Pledger has withdrawn his application to join the Australia Council for the Arts' Creative Climate Leadership program and explains…
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I, Artist
NYID has always been an artistically bold arts company, but is it ready for an avatar to become the boss?
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40,000 artists’ votes up for grabs!
On the eve of the election, David Pledger argues that artists should vote for policies that look to their most…
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Arts funding in an interconnected ecology
A local council decision to cut funding echoes Federal Government’s ongoing slashing of the arts, according to David Pledger.
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How art intervenes in an emergency
An artistic inquiry into disaster preparedness is in its last days and David Pledger thinks it has much to tell…
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The Time to Tell
As media cycles and social media mix the messages of our times, David Pledger argues that artists have a unique…
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The case for a Universal Basic Income: freeing artists from neo-liberalism
The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.
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30% Fair
The sector’s governance is broken and the values underwriting it are morally bankrupt, argues David Pledger. A radical reshaping of…
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Some solutions to the world of the disappearing arts
With the Arts disappearing as a Federal Government department title, David Pledger looks around the world to see how other…
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The arts funding drought
Consistent financial discrimination funnels arts money into richer companies, leaving independent artists gasping for air.