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Editorial

By: a-n

The climate today in which artists practice in the UK is being regularly met with new pressures and restrictions.

Earlier this year Artsadmin's Manick Govinda reported on his efforts to lobby the Home Office on their regulations on non-EU artists working in the UK (and we have since witnessed the effect of these restrictions across the spectrum of cultural activity, from international guests invited to perform at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, to guest curators invited to select next year's Artes Mundi 4 prize); and AIR has expediently addressed another pressure on artists that has arisen from our increasingly litigious society, namely the requirement for artists to have adequate a Public Liability Insurance policy as standard when working in many situations. This month's Debate feature forewarns of another potential pressure in the form of ethical regulation of art. A measure that is already hampering research in social sciences where such regulations are already in place, Robert Dingwall and Nell Munro consider the implications of introducing ethical requirements to artists' practices. It would be fair to say that artists are rarely able to contribute at a strategic level to the decision-making that influences their working conditions. In a recent poll 84% of responding AIR members wanted to...

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