Putting Out a Contract on Art
Local artists who seek Foreign Ministry funding to showcase their work abroad are required to sign a lengthy legal document whose terms are anything but democratic.
A few years ago, I was invited to a poetry festival in Barcelona. I was happy. I dutifully faxed my poems, had them translated into two languages - Catalonian and Castilian - and checked whatever I could check. Then, in the midst of the dialogue-by-fax, the deal was canceled, the invitation withdrawn - for budgetary reasons, they told me.
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