RAT what is forward thinking now...

[Caden Manson <caden@bigartgroup.com>]

What do you think of this excerpt form the September 8th, 1998 issue of
the Village Voice article,  "Star Hip Troopers" by Alisa Solomon

"Like Gale Gates and other young groups inspired by the avant-garde
innovations of the 60s and 70s, Colapsable Giraffe points to a crisis in
experimental theater: what was once a movement of inquiry, demanding new
ways of seeing and thinking, has become, simply, a genre. Even much of
the work in this past FringeNYC Festival, though less endowed with
gizmos, tended toward the conventional. What gives? Is it the absence of
political and social movements from which theatrical experiment once
drew a sense of purpose? Has the creeping commodification of the
avant-garde made trying to catch the Next Wave or the eyes of HBO the
loftiest goal of those not interested in the mainstream?"


I thought this would get everyone going for a moment. I found it
provacative.

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