지속가능한 미래예술생태계를 위한 조건과가능성: 청년예술과 지역 거버넌스를 중심으로

Abstract

In the case of musicians growing up in institutional education, they focus only on learning for nearly 10 years to cultivate basic skills until they graduate from art middle and high schools and universities. In addition, since it is rare for an independent artist to be able to stand alone as soon as they graduate from college, most of them gain experience in art activities and go to graduate school to study at the same time. At this time, those who cannot pay their tuition with the help of their parents will have to add the hours of work to earn tuition and living expenses. Considering this series of processes, it is no exaggeration to say that it takes more than 15 years to take the first step into society with your own art. However, the reality in front of young artists who have to finally start their full-fledged artistic activities after such a long period of time is incomparably harsh with the competition-oriented, goal-oriented learning process. Modern society, which thoroughly evaluates the value of all beings around economic indicators, never helps a person's artist settle down safely in society if he or she fails to prove his or her economic value. This is because artists may be the most expendable and less socially valuable beings in terms of "economic utility". In the reality that a sufficient social safety net has not been established, it is virtually impossible to secure the sustainability of art with only one's own power. Therefore, almost all artists, regardless of generation, are forced to rely on government-supported projects to carry out their activities. In addition, culture and arts policies centered on the metropolitan area, which have long emerged as a chronic problem in the art field, have faced a phase of full-fledged change in the era of cultural decentralization starting with the "blacklist crisis." And as the stage disappeared and the radius of art activities rapidly narrowed due to COVID-19, the art ecosystem in modern society has entered an era of "great transformation," from artists seeking new ways online to finding new governance paradigms centered on their residential and active areas. Therefore, the future art ecosystem needs fundamental and practical considerations to revitalize local art in terms of sustainability. This article tries to understand the current state of the art ecosystem through the reality of young artists in modern society, and at the same time, try to summarize the possibility of a solution through governance that can be found in the era of cultural decentralization among the social systems that make it difficult to continue artistic activities. Through this article, I hope that artists who will live in the future will go beyond survival and establish their identity as subjects of creating a society that lives with art.