Re: RAT There's nothing wrong with being elitist....

["Glen 'Skip' Newell" <skipworthy@hotmail.com>]

Schedinski wrote-


> I agree with Skip in the general sense about how he
> reads Artaud, but would add that the 'clinging' is
> carried on to this day

Precisely- hence the discussion we are now having. The Theatre of Cruelty is
a LIVING thing...


>...the rhetoric we are bouncing around trying
> to define a masterpiece seems for the most part
> self-serving.

Is it? I see levels emerging here- and one of them is the question of whom
we 'serve' by our work ( We meaning 'artists', hence the debage of
populism).

 I can't say honestly that I know, in any
> practical sense, what "an expression which is timeless
> and also without comparison in it's {sic} genre"

I apologize for the gaffe of syntax- passion has it's price, I guess...What
I meant, though, was to lend some solidity to what is ( you are right, it is
an impractical thing) an essentially  abstract and somewhat subjective idea,
just to serve as a kind of summary. I would welcome a better one...

> ...I think we are better suited on this list to
> talk more frankly about what we are trying to do,
> rather than shoot for the moon by saying what we
> believe a masterpiece to be.

But that IS what we are trying to do, most of us...or at least a very
important aspect of it. Besides, there are some really gifted people who
take part in these discussions, and some truly fascinating points of view. I
,for one,  wouldn't want it any other way...

Skip









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