ABSTRACT
Devised by 2012 Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP) Improvisers-in-Residence Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood, The Share purposefully disrupted boundaries between professional and amateur, between public and private, between performance and play, and between the presentational and the participatory. The Share is what he calls a 'cartographic composition': a site-specific piece for mobile musicians play loosely structured musical material. Despite the clear antithesis between The Share and the neoliberal administrative regime, in a sense, the event and the Improviser-in-Residence project more generally has emerged in part as a result of the neoliberalization at the University of Guelph. In their university management practices in Australia, Simon Marginson and Mark Considine pointed to the emergence of 'limited life areas of research or research centres, sponsored from above for research funding purposes' as evidence of growing neoliberalization. Indeed, the Program Prioritization Process (PPP) itself offers some evidence for the extent to which the ICASP funding model is symptomatic of neoliberalism in the academy.
