Seb Chan, Chief Experience Officer, ACMI, with Honor Harger, Vice President of Attractions, Marina Bay Sands and Art Science Museum


Seb Chan and Honor Harger discuss the Future of Arts and Culture report, which presents three speculative futures for the arts and cultural sector worldwide. They discuss the tension between creating blockbuster exhibitions and nurturing grassroots forms of artistic practice and highlight the importance of emotional media to make people more receptive to change.

They also discuss the anxiety that arts organisations feel about securing future funding and the fear they have have about coping in a transactional future dominated by commercialised digital platforms. Chan and Harger emphasise the need for institutions to invest more in futuring and foresight and keep pace with generational behavioural shifts.

They discuss how Museums are not neutral platforms and how cultural institutions are now openly taking a campaigning stance on social issues that they are passionate about. Finally, they note the pandemic's shift towards kindness and empathy in society and express a desire to be in-person and hear everyone's experiences.

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