The arrival of the creation industrial era brings along the increasing values of creation area, for example the rise of copyright. Therefore, the governmental and non-governmental supporting programs for performing arts creation grow in many various f...
The arrival of the creation industrial era brings along the increasing values of creation area, for example the rise of copyright. Therefore, the governmental and non-governmental supporting programs for performing arts creation grow in many various forms each day. The objective of this research is to categorize each performing arts creation support based on the background and needs of them, and finally propose the effective method for the performing arts support.
In the creation industrial era, as the performing arts is a higher value added business, it has a means of business. In addition to that, it takes the social responsibility by releasing the society’s conflict and the educational role by developing youth’s good personality. And through the aesthetic appreciation value of the art, it contributes toward improving the quality of life for people. Therefore, the support based on social consultation are well invigorated because the art has a characteristic of market down but socially contributable by creating external benefit.
In order to investigate the current status of governmental support for performing art creation, this research examines supporting programs in Ministry of Culture, Korean Culture and Arts Committee and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
The major supports from Ministry of Culture are ‘Creation Factory Project’ and the operation of National Art Organizations. Creation Factory is a new strategic supporting project taking a break from the temporary payment for production cost that used to be a traditional governmental support. The national art organizations governed by Ministry of Culture support the development and distribution of its arts genre by cultivating the artist and by presenting the creation outcomes. Above this, this organization tries to help the artists protect rights and sustainable welfare by legislation.
Korean Culture and Arts Committee support the following performing arts creation supporting project: direct and indirect way of various supporting project, ‘Crowd funding’ that promotes rather small on-line donation, ‘The Artist House’ that supports space and information for creation activity and ‘Arko Performing Arts Incubation’ that foster the rising young artist.
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture supports ‘The Regular Public Contest Project’ and ‘NArT(New Art Trend)Project’ to help discover great artwork and raise new artists. And this foundation takes a role of promoting performing arts creation by operating several projects for ‘Creation Space’ and ‘Art Center Resident’ organization as much as Korean Culture and Arts Committee do.
This researcher categorizes each governmental support for the performing arts creation by direct and indirect support and group them based on supporting objective.
Direct supporting program from the government is the “Artwork Contest” whose objective is to select the excellent artworks. And both direct and indirect support is “Reinforcement of the Capability” which strengthens the artist’s ability. Indirect support programs are “Creator Protection” which helps artists by securing their rights and producing proper art eco-system and enabling a creation invigoration. “Environment Setup” is also indirect support which provides a space for artwork and an opportunity for oversea posting. At last, “Support Inducement” is a donation program for artists or information providing for supporting program so that all supports can be led to the artists.
According to the category arrangement, today’s governmental supports for performing art creation have characteristics as follows.
Firstly, there is a supporting category only be implemented by the governmental support. This, for example “Artist Protection”, can be operated based on the institutional policy. “Support Inducement” is the category that can be trusted by the donators only if implemented by the non-profitable governmental support. With this condition, this support can guarantee freedom of expression.
Secondly, “Artwork Contest” is the category that has no considerable differentiation compared to non-governmental support. However, governmental supports always need to have a long administrative procedure that risks a bad impression to its dignity. Therefore, this support requires overcoming this disadvantage.
Thirdly, unclear and massive governmental support regarding support beneficiaries is not particularly effective because artists tend to lack in information gathering. Only when the support program has a clear objectives and identities, it will be helpful to the artists.
Governmental support has responsibility in developing the national culture status by proposing exemplary role model. Governmental support should be differentiated and identified compared to non-governmental support and by strengthening the supports that the non-governmental activities certainly have a limitation, it can improve the artist’s working conditions and develop the creation vitalization.
With the effective governmental supporting plan, the domestic performing arts market will have rich contents that can increase for people to have opportunities of art experience. And it is expected that it brings the economical profit and the growth in national status and trust by strengthen the educational and artistic capability.