New Delhi: For the conveners of Jaipur Literature Festival, touted as the world’s largest free-literary event, institutions and art do not go hand in hand and “governments have no role to play in arts.”
Institutions, both public and private, may support and facilitate the growth of the arts but it is essentially not possible to control its fluidity, according to them.
“Bureaucracy or government deals with things in a prescribed way, and art does not fall into any prescription.
Hence, there can’t be a happy equation between the two.
“Yes, they may provide resources towards arts. But you cannot have the government controlling arts because potentially there is a conflict between the two,” said JLF Producer Sanjoy K Roy.
He was speaking at one of the sessions titled, “Festivals and beyond” at the Lila’s Prism lecture series. The discussion which revolved around the theme ‘Institution as Practice’ also had historian-author William Dalrymple and writer Namita Gokhale on the panel.
The talk, chaired by art critic and curator Alka Pande focussed on the role played by institutions in the promotion of arts.
