The thing that most resonated with me while reading Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed was how art and the process of making art is defined as a different language. I couldn’t agree with this more. The example of people being asked to take a picture of what their home is could not be more memorable. In this matter, the writer argues that photography is purely a visual language. The saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” really began to take a new meaning. The language of making theatre is argued to be one of story telling. As a lighting designer, this is purely what I do. Just like the community members participating in various games, I take a script or some piece of work and build the world that exists around it. My art is not as much about physicality, but nonetheless, it is my job as a theatre designer to create the world that the story revolves around.
Assignment: Aesthetic Evangelists - Due 1/30 Three key ideas in the text that resonate with me: The first is the idea of the "new public art," or what we would call "community engaged art." The article discusses the transition from art displayed in public sites to community based projects that have the goal of collaboration and focus more on the process than the end result/outcome. This intrigues me because before this class I was honestly very unaware of this form of art-making and its growing prevalence. Another idea that resonates with me is when the author talked about community based public art of today drawing on the urban reform rhetoric of the past both consciously and subconsciously. This stood out because it's an old adage that history repeats itself and I think it's interesting that the times we live in now call for a callback to this type of work and a more curious examination of what this can do for people and their communities. Th...
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