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Editorial

In the aftermath of the current credit crisis, how might we expect artists to be operating?

Fast and cheap e-communications technology and increased living costs have influenced more artists (and curators) to relocate their practice outside the recognised cultural hotspots – if not as an alternative, than as a compliment to urban working. October's a-n Magazine featured several such programmes and projects around the UK, and in this month? Reviews section Georgina Coburn explores the critical impact of such activity taking place in Scotland. In her overview of art activity across the Scottish Highlands and Islands, she identifies that contemporary artists are actively redefining the region? 'cultural cartography'. "Ideas of territory, edge and centre are being actively explored, leading to wider questions about the relationship between urban and rural centres and the kind of culture we choose to build." While the art press remains attentive to the urban centres, these non-centric areas of peripheral activity are generating a growing critical focus of their own. Part of a continuing strategy for an artist's survival will be the capacity for cost-effective self-definition and profile raising, something that a-n's various online sites can facilitate very effectively....

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