Läs hela artikeln av styrelseledamot Natasha Marie Llorens om svensk kulturpolitik
”Sweden is that reasonable cousin at Christmas dinner who, when someone starts talking about climate collapse and the rise of fascism, brings the tone of the conversation back within an acceptable emotional range. Around the time the Netherlands was brutally gutting its cultural funding in the early 2010s, Sweden was rearticulating its commitment to a strong, state-supported cultural sector. According to Ann Demeester, the Dutch government justified its financial butchery by painting “artists as elitist, parasitic, sophisticated beggars, living off state subsidies, basically procrastinating.”1 Sweden, by contrast, passed a cultural policy plan in 2009 declaring that “[state-supported] Culture is to be a dynamic, challenging and independent force based on the freedom of expression … Creativity, diversity, and artistic quality are to be integral parts of society’s development” (…).