Theatre Journal
In Vandevelde’s article, he describes how common it is nowadays for artists to become separated from art. He mentions how many artists are emphasizing their ideas rather than their actual pieces of artwork. He talks about how art has started to become dictated more so by institutions rather than the artists. He claims how populism is a large part of the arts nowadays and that it should not be because it’s not trying to do anything new or be innovative. Vandevelde believes that the only way to overcome this dilemma is by ensuring a charter for stage artists (ensuring payment), making artists work with and even form their own institutions, and that artists need to realize that they have no ownership or authority over these institutions and must work in tandem.
I definitely found this article very interesting because it wasn’t something I was very aware of. I know that this article was written and based of the theatre scene in Belgium, but I can still see how it applies to the US and the rest of the world. From my research into theatre history from both this course and in my other classes, theatre was how artists could make a critique of society or to share new and innovative ideas. It’s so common nowadays for people to make theatre purely for the audience relationship and reaction, which I understand and I don’t deny that it isn’t an important part, but I think so many people nowadays forget that theatre is just for entertainment. It’s a vessel for sharing new ideas. I think it’s important that an audience comes away from a theatre piece curious and thoughtful rather than entertained. http://howlround.com/the-artist-as-agent-for-change
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