Re: RAT THE SUPERBOWL?

[vz <dexteriously@yahoo.com>]

--- brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com> wrote:
The Super Bowl halftime show is a close as most people will ever get to
Robert Wilson, or Pina Bausch,  or Balinese Shadowplay, and in that way
it is a valid discussion because it comments directly on the state of
multidisciplinary perfomance in the States. Nothing that happened in
the halftime show was all that formally revolutionary- the mere fact
that it was the halftime show is.
>  
> --brad

I wish I'd watched that halftime show more closely, Brad, because I'm
all in favor of a discussion of how we, as artists, might make use of
mass culture, or work against it.  Unfortunately, though I had the TV
on at the time, I found it hurt my ears, and the plug for Disney World
at the end made me queasy.

Still, I'm interested: what are the questions worth asking here?  Does
the staging of a multimedia spectacle in front of such a large audience
have implications for what you and I can or should do?  Should we be
seeking out new contexts for our work?  What would a RAT halftime show
look like, and who would book us?  If no one, then should we be
organizing our own football games and using them as a marketing tool to
draw an (unsuspecting) audience to our work?  Should we take Disney
money, and pay our artists?  What if Disney expects a plug for their
products to be woven into the content of our show?

What do we want to say to a stadium full of sports fans?

--Wally Z
 
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