Embracing risk in the arts

An insurance mentality that seeks to avoid problems also destroys essential opportunities for serendipity.
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Children play in the hammocks at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Image via sydneylivingmuseums.com.au

In an episode of the recently aired Australian satire Utopia, a misprint on a publicity brochure promoting a behemoth urban development, and the ensuing PR this generates, leads public servants at the Nation Building Authority to undertake a feasibility study into the inclusion of a community garden on the unlikely site.

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Chloe Wolifson
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Chloe Wolifson is a Sydney-based independent art writer and curator who works across artist-run, commercial and public domains. chloewolifson.com