I'm not saying some deserving work doesn't get funded, but grants and gallery berths are always in short supply. And this, in turn, leads to a second form of isolation. Artists are competing for scarce resources and this isolates them from one another. It creates a kind of mania. This is not a creative climate.
Collaboration is the soul of culture, but the system divides people.
Nothing's going to trickle down. It's time for artists to spread out. We need a broader public. It is immediate and involving. It's collaborative and it breaks down barriers between audience and art work.