Re: RAT Theater as Art Form/Party/Parade vs. Theater as Small Business

[shadowtackle@att.net]

I'm happy to make money from art,when that happens.

I don't want lack of money to stand between me and the 
making of art, because I'd like art to be the way I am 
with the world in addition to being what I do in it. I 
don't want availability of money to confuse me about my 
value or the value of my work. 

I don't want money to mediate between presentation and 
receception of what I do. The act of shelling out can 
heighten an experience - but I'd rather have the 
audience pay just about any other way than with money - 
which is abstract and marked by a long history of 
psycological torture. No, grants alone don't work, and 
we can't always sidestep box office; non-violence 
doesn't always work either, but we can spend more time 
entertaining its possiblities. Money and violence are 
treated like inevitabilities, which they almost are, but 
not entirely. 

Love and hate are heavily comodified; music is heavily 
comodified. Love and hate and music also perpetuate 
themselves (their forms, their effects, their laws, 
their extremes) beyond or prior to the touch of the 
market. Money is involved in my marriage and my 
friendships and my church, but I can't say exactly that 
pay to join. Can a theater (the company and the 
company/audience contract) be organized more like garage 
rock or a marriage? - in professional terms, versus raw-
emotional (an audence-spouse or audience-bass player is 
different from a spouse or a bass player).


- e



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