Are ethics and activism becoming luxuries for arts organisations?
State funding is disappearing, and artists have been ingenious in finding new, often corporate income streams. But how does that sit with art that wants to challenge the status quo? Talking to a colleague in New York recently, I mentioned how important it was to me that the work I directed had the potential to change the world, however incrementally. It's central to me to leave the audience thinking, feeling or actin…