Re: RAT, The dramaturgy of...

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

I'm gonna climb out on the fruit-filled limb here and
suggest a metaphor for ALL art, not just theatre.

Think of it as electricity.  You can build up a lot of
static potential by scuffling across the carpet, but
until you touch the ear of your hapless victim, no
electrical current exists.  

So, strictly speaking, Van Gogh created POTENTIAL art
with his paintings; it didn't ACTUALLY become art
until light hit those colored oil smearings and
bounced into someone else's eye.


--- Allison Narver <anarver@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah but performance art is still about performance
> --
> which, to me, means an audience.
> 
> --- Mary Ann McGivern <mmcgivern@stlnet.com> wrote:
> > Dickinson and Van Gogh illustrate the end of the
> > line of one form of
> > "fuck 'em" artistry. They both kept working,
> > following their vision,
> > with no audience. But they didn't do theater. It
> > seems to me that
> > playwrights give the audience a role (as well as
> the
> > director, actors,
> > dramaturg, stagehands, ticket clerks, pr staff,
> > board of directors).
> > Otherwise it's performance art.
> > 
> > Mary Ann


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