Associate Professor Jo Caust

Associate Professor Jo Caust is the Program Director of the Arts and Cultural Management Program in the School of Management. She is also the Managing Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management.

She has had extensive experience in the arts sector as a practitioner, manager and consultant.

Associate Professor Caust is a Hawke Institute Researcher and is a member of the Research Group into Integrity and Governance.

Doctorate of Philosophy (University of South Australia)

Master of Arts (University of South Australia)

Graduate Diploma in Arts Administration (City University, London)

Bachelor of Arts (Flinders University)

• Arts Leadership/Management
• Cultural Policy
• Arts and Economics

1. Caust Jo (2007) “Arts, governments and money: Do the arts have any value if they don’t make money?" International Journal of Humanities in press

2. Caust Jo (2006) “State of SA; the Arts” in Spoehr J Ed. The State of South Australia Australian Institute for Social Research December 2006

3. Caust Jo (2006) “Valuing Art/Culture” in Artwork Issue 65, December 2006 Community Arts Network , Adelaide.

4. Caust Jo (2005)“Arts in South Australia” in Spoehr J ed. The State of South Australia Wakefield Press June 2005

5. Caust Jo (2005)“Does it matter who is in charge? The influence of the business paradigm on arts leadership and management.” Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management Vol 3. Issue 1 Australia October 2005 under the guest editorship of Associate Professor Deborah Stevenson.

6. Caust Jo (2005) “Privilege or Problem: The distinct role of government in arts development in South Australia” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society Spring 2005 Vol 35, No1 Washington USA.

7. Caust Jo (2004) “A Festival in Disarray: Was the 2002 Adelaide Festival a ‘debacle’ or a path towards another model of arts organisation and leadership?” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society Spring 2004 Vol 34, No 1 Washington USA. Conference Papers

8. Caust Jo (2003) “Putting the Arts Back into Arts Policy Making: How Arts Policy has been captured by the economists and marketers” The International Journal of Cultural Policy Vol 9 Number 1 April 2003 United Kingdom.

Conference Papers

9. Caust Jo (2008) “Arts and business: the impact of business models on the activities of performing arts organisations in Australia.” Fifth International Conference for Cultural Policy Research 20-24 August 2008, Yedittepe University, Istanbul.

10. Caust Jo (July 2007) “The arts as cash cows: How should we value the arts in an economically driven world” 5th International Conference on New Directions in Humanities, American University in Paris, 17-20 July, France CDRom

11. Caust Jo ( 2007) “Do art and creativity intersect? Understandings of creativity in arts organisations.” 9th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management University of Valencia (July 2007)

12. Caust Jo (2006)“Censorship or coercion: government and the arts in difficult times” The Fourth International Conference on Cultural Policy, Vienna (July 2006)

13. Caust Jo (2005) “Marketing and Sponsorship of the Arts: A chicken and egg dilemma?”Second Australasian Nonprofit & Social Marketing Conference, Deakin University Melbourne (September 2005)

14. Caust Jo (2004) “Marketing and the Arts: A pact with the devil?” The Second International Art of Management Conference, Paris (September 2004)

15. Caust Jo (2004) “Leadership, management or subversion: Is mainstreaming leadership of the arts destroying its raison d’être?” Australasian Caucus of the Standing Committee on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) Inaugural Colloquium “Boundaries, Bounded, Unbounded: Positions in Organisation Studies” 2-3 December 2004 The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland

16. Caust Jo (2004) “Which way to Nirvana? Unravelling the difference in discourse about art, culture and the meaning of life.”The Third International Conference on Cultural Policy, HEC Montreal August 2004

17. Caust Jo (2003) “The 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts: a crisis in leadership”. The 4th International Conference of the Multinational Alliance for the Advancement of Organisational Excellence, RMIT Melbourne (October 2003)

18. Caust Jo (2003 “Leadership of arts organisations: have the minor characters taken over the plot?” Workshop on Aesthetics, Art And Management - Towards New Fields of Flow. European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management Gattieres , France (July 2003)

19. Caust Jo (2003) “A Festival in Disarray: Was the 2002 Adelaide Festival a debacle or a path towards another model of arts organisation and leadership?” Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Cambridge (July 2003)

20. Caust Jo (2003) “Sellars and the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts: an organisational nightmare or a ‘wake-up’ call for arts leadership?” 7th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management University of Bocconi, Milan (July 2003)

21. Caust Jo (2002)“Has the discourse about cultural policy been captured by the economists and the marketers, and if so, what can be done about it?”. Second International Conference on Cultural Policy Victoria University, Wellington (January 2002)

22. Caust Jo (2002) “Arts, Leadership and Creativity: How are they reconciled within a managerial paradigm?” Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference La Trobe University Beechworth, Victoria December 2002

23. Caust Jo (2001) “What is a creative style of leadership and why is it important in the arts sector?” 6th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management, QUT Brisbane (July 2001)

24. Caust Jo (2000)“ Where does leadership fit with creativity” Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism Athens (July 2000)

25. Caust Jo (1999))“ If you can manage a chocolate factory, can you manage an arts organisation?” First International Conference on Critical Studies in Management University of Manchester July 1999

26. Caust Jo (1999) “Is the audience more important than the art?”5th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management, Helsinki (June 1999)

27. Caust Jo (1998) “Is arts leadership different?”Sanskriti Institute of Management for Cultural Organisations Conference New Delhi (December 1998)

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Arts Management

• arts management
• cultural policy
• leadership in the arts
• arts as business
• valuing the arts
• creative and cultural industries