Superfluities Redux
On culture and theatre, by George Hunka
A new journal for theatre minima and organum posts exclusively can now be found here.
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
"A theatre ... must above all things be irresponsible and disloyal"
"I would like to propose a different theatre, in which conscience is
removed from its dominant function and criticism is confined to that fatal
axis where it alone operates to the common good – that which lies
between the artist and the text, the self-criticism exercised in deletion,
excision, self-denial of the banal and the routine. I would like to
propose that the value of works of art, in social circumstances such as
the present, lies not in their entertainment value, nor in their ability
to 'change perceptions' in pursuit of some common purpose, but in their
power to devastate the received wisdom of the collective, which conspires
to diminish individual experience at all levels. A theatre which addresses
the individual and ceases to regard the audience as an entity, which
denies the existence of audience as singular at all, must above all things
be irresponsible and disloyal. It cannot hope for the status of social
critic, since the social critic is fully incorporated, and it must not
clamour for the comforts of solidarity, the much-
Howard Barker
George Orwell Memorial Lecture, Birkbeck College, 1991
In Arguments for a Theatre
Posted at 12.52 pm in /Quotes
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008
An addition to the Organum is available this morning at the new theatre minima journal.
Posted at 8.56 am in /Theatreminima
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008
Those who wish to add their names to the open letter of support for Bill Henson can now do so here.
Those who doubt that sex may be on the minds of Australian politicians far more than Australian photographers may find this a source of enlightenment, as well as worthy of a laugh or two. Maybe Chris had a point about the Freudian approach.
Posted at 8.25 am in /Politics
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