Buskers and Situation Artists are also discriminated against by propaganda which promotes a negative stereotype, representing what they are doing as something that is neither artistic nor truly musical. Bongo Mike and Extremely Frank Jeremy evolved a theory about Situation Art, about their performances on tube (metro) systems and other performance places, after becoming conscious of what they were doing, after years of itinerancy and homelessness.

One of the barriers to realising that these performances are artistic is the degraded and criminalised world that the performer lives in.

A Situation Art performer adapts each performance to its particular venue - for example, a performance that works on a train might not be effective in a station environment, and on the other hand the very different acoustical and cultural needs of a station performance would not be impressive to an audience on a train.

Situation Art is quite different from what is called "Accessible Art".

"Accessible Art" is a political idea, and is all about things like people on Arts Council grants going to ghetto areas of cities and painting murals on the walls (purely as an example). "Accessible Art" is about taking art to "the people", whether they like it or not - as if those they call "the people" had some kind of inferior intellect to the government-grant-backed pushers of this over-idealised concept. "Accessible Art" assumes that ordinary people are not able to digest the full thing, and gives them pretty patterns on walls instead.

One of the things about Situation Art is that it is genuinely of the people, rather more than in the case of so-called "Accessible Art", which is supposed to be for the people.

Situation art is an interactive form of art in which the people participate by amongst other things contributing donations in a natural reaction to the performance - organic rather than bureaucratic.

populism
Populism is an ability to communicate with the public which generally comes from skills so developed that it looks like anybody could do it.
Accessibility however is a political dogma applied to art and music etc, where a relationship with the general public is contrived for political ends. it has been deeply rooted in popular music since the sixties, and is not in the interests of freely creative music. It is a repressive orthodoxy, and can be used to censor other forms of music.

buskers contests etc
Another related problem is a continual stream of disinformation put out by the bureaucracy - for example, the organization of so-called "Buskers Contests". Considering the attitude of the authorities, one might as well organize "Pickpockets Contests". Yet London politicians, for example, when it suits them, will organize a "Buskers Contest", knowing well that busking is fundamentally illegal away from their contest and that there is no likelihood of a GENUINE change other than a hyped-up phoney change (such as bureaucratic licensing schemes which censor the naturally occurring culture).
Away from all these schemes, police and many other officials still tend to treat Buskers and Situation Artists as petty criminals, as do some courts.