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critique of theatre: a representation of theatre as essentially colonial, its crisis

The critique would run like this: the New Zealand theatre is an aspect, a symptom, and an emblem, of colonial culture. In a way, it’s worse than poetry, because it’s expensive. It costs more money for its ephemeral productions than it does to publish the slim volume of

in the key of red

Thoughtfully tucked away in The Business Herald insert, The Insider reports: Lessons for politicians, No. 1: Learn a little about your audience before you open your mouth. When John Key and National’s Manurewa candidate, Cam Calder, visited the former Homai College (now the Blind and Low Vision Education Network)

The Social Studio is where what happens happened

Artur Żmijewski’s show is covered by we make money not art. The blog talks about two works by the Polish artist. One is a recreation of a scientific study at Stanford to find out what happens to good people in an evil environment. Students volunteered to act, some playing

the missing rhyme reversed

– image [my inversion] courtesy Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

IV.vi

This cold grey sea is the sea of my desire. It churns, roils, spumes. It metastasizes. It whorls, gullies, swells. It is grey. It has its own light, a homeostatic lucency. If you were a helicopter, if you were a gull, looking at the swell, you’d see two things.

aide memoire: both theatre and theory have a spectacular etymology, T-Cell

The spectacle of terrorism imposes the terrorism of the spectacle. And against this immoral fascination (even if it engenders a universal moral reaction) the political order can do nothing. This is our theatre of cruelty, the only one left to us, -extraordinary because it unites the most spectacular to the

in the eventuality that god is undermined, waiting for Weber

theatricality gives Morgan Wortham the opportunity for an excellent description of Weber’s modus operandi, which ‘continually work[s] to exceed, destabilize and dislocate any framework in which the question of theatricality as such might be put’. For several reasons, theatricality is inseparable from the idea of a theatrical performance.