Esther Anatolitis

Esther Anatolitis is a writer and cultural commentator. She has led several of Victoria’s key arts organisations, teaches in the studio program at RMIT Architecture and Design, and is a director of ACMI and Contemporary Arts Precincts. Her work is collected at estheranatolitis.net.

Articles by Esther Anatolitis:

28 June 201728 July 2017 · Journalism

Content discontent

Esther Anatolitis

At the same time, the arts are struggling in an environment of reduced funding, static operating grants and straitened private giving. Institutions work within increasingly fixed parameters: the dimensions of a gallery or a stage; the production requirements of a tour; the marketing schedule of a festival; the presentation slots of a symposium; the artform categories of a funding body. ‘We loved your content!’ enthused a colleague after my talk at their event. ‘That’s not “content”,’ I replied, ‘that’s expertise.’