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Walking backwards into the future

Marshall McLuhan once said that “We look at the present through a rear view mirror; we walk backwards into the future.” I was reminded of this quote as I was drafting a guest blog post for the Canada Council website. The post highlights a tension I felt at both Jacob Zimmer’s Unconference on Change and the Future(s) of Toronto Performance and the Canada Council’s Inter-Arts Office’s consultations I helped to frame  – a tension between an arts organization’s reliance on the past (i.e. an organization’s past practices and performance, so-called best practices based on other organizations’ past experiences, etc) and…