Inter-arts office
Contemporary Australian art is fuelled by the experimentation and innovation of artists creating work at the edges of established arts practices.
Each of the Australia Council’s funding programs supports innovation and the development of artistic practice within particular artforms.
The inter-arts office, however, supports new artistic practice that does not fall within the existing funding guidelines of the artform boards. This includes creative processes such as interdisciplinary and hybrid arts, and crossdisciplinary projects involving artists and practitioners from other fields.
The inter-arts office supports development processes or artistic outcomes that demonstrate a capacity to make conceptual or practical leaps in our knowledge and perception of what
constitutes art.
Artists working in this area create works that transform our experience of art – it is challenging, new and as yet unresolved in terms of its position within established artforms.
New artistic practice may not always have broad audience appeal, but it is important as a research and development engine within the arts, influencing and impacting other artforms.
The types of arts projects the inter-arts office supports are necessarily exploratory in nature and fit broadly within a framework of research and development, experimentation and creative development.
The inter-arts office seeks to support artists to create engaging works from concept development through to production.
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