Posts in ‘ Spectatorship ’
Performance Notes PLAY/WAR by Urban Research Theater As performed at Where Eagles Dare Theater, March 12 & 13, 2010 In the beginning, darkness. The creaking of a door as it opens…to admit two performers. A low vocal tone resonates in the small room… First one, then a series of these tones gradually coalesce into a fragment of vocal melody…A proto-song emerges. ... [ READ MORE ]
The obvious questions that come to our mind in this context are like this: What is the journey? Where is the journey headed? Whose journey is it? Why is it a journey? We all are very conditioned and comfortable with getting answers – but not questions. Questions unsettle us, make us uncomfortable, and sometimes force us to rethink and question ... [ READ MORE ]
I have sometimes been heard to complain that the artistic production culture in New York City is excessively product-oriented, to the extreme detriment of the quality of this work. I now realize that an element of this issue, which I’ve never consciously thought of before, has been the lack of a strong, principled stand on ... [ READ MORE ]
The notion of creative practice can be approached from many angles. I hope that as this discussion forum grows, the concept of creative practice will be elaborated in different ways. To begin with, however, I want to pose a series of questions as “starting points” for a consideration of creative practice. These are simply the ... [ READ MORE ]
I am proposing the term “creative practice” to bring together two areas that I believe are intimately linked: The art of practice and the practice of art. For me, the difference between art and practice is not essentially about the role of the spectator. Both art and practice have private aspects and public aspects, intertwined and ... [ READ MORE ]
Creative Practice forum (CPf) is a new space for artists and practitioners to share ideas and information about their work.