diane, there's a diff between intervening in the (voluntarily present)
audience's everyday & intervening in an institutional practice where
participants are tied up, so to speak, in it.... A diff in the nature of
participation in the performance...
1st, a diff in the degree and kind of reflexivity that is typical of
everyday (goal-oriented) work and deliberately contra-everyday cultural
spaces -- which is what makes the latter so attractive, of course.
It is much harder to interrupt what is presupposed when so much at stake
(professional advancement; institutional commitments; networks of practice)
depends on it. The point is that the workaday world is object-oriented. The
subjunctive is a highly constrained 'space' there. Going in through the
object is the only way in imaginable; AND there is a difference in WHO
participates in the performance -- it's self-selected in the case of art;
in an institutional intervention, the buying-into-&-performing-change is a
collective project....
At 03:21 PM 6/10/01 -0600, you wrote:
>xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>>Going over the comments so far, I realize that I missed diane's point,
>>that
>>it's all theatre, which I don't disagree with. I just believe strongly in
>>the everyday as a site for intervention.
>
>the everyday IS 'theatre' - right? so is there a difference between
>recognizing theatre in the everyday,
>and positioning the everyday as distinct from theatre/social performance?
>diane
>
>
>> Performance artists 'go there' -
>>but the effects they have are contained within the arts/ a critical
>>community. Outside the brackets devoted to thinking in terms of artifice,
>>we need to do more to intervene in the constructions we live through.
>
>performance is, in the artistic sense, an intervention into the 'everyday'
>of the audience -
>again, how are these distinctions manifesting for you?
>
>diane,
>the lone voice of contradiction in an apparently shared activity?
>ha ha
>
>"If you'll excuse me now, I'd like to be alone with my sandwich."
>Homer
>
>
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