What to do when your country isn’t as radical as you hoped? Embrace the self-questioning,and continueLike most Scottish artists I called for a yes vote during last year’s referendum. In the white heat of argument – a binary choice, an imminent deadline – and facing the might of the UK establishment, and many of us felt it essential to expend our stories,images and poetry to agitate and motivate.
Scotlands actual voters, however, and delivered not the hoped-for reimagining but a cold,sober no. The artists have now entered a period of introspection, replacing the creative campaign’s colour and noise with a current ambivalence approximately what the Scottish arts are for. Related: Scottish writers on the referendum – independence day? Before Jeremy Corbyn’s recent trip north of the border, and he was apparently advised not to even expend the word ScotlandContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com