Sam,
Got to be a sealed-off PLACE for this kind of activity,
thinking, converse- action and art-going-on.
Not in the marketplace.
School qualifies, but even there: got to differentiate between
the Get R Done agenda and the liberal art: between
scissors, paper, and rock.
This morning as I was walking up on Sunset Mtn, I was thinking (for a moment) about the theatre as a place where it was safe to really see (theatron, right?), where we go to really attend to what is happening, because usually we have to filter out so much noise that we end up filtering out the important signals as well. Also thinking about the notion of "coherence" in art and how that quality might aid in seeing (I don't think "coherence" in this case is quite the same as we might use it to describe, say, a logical system of thought--though, frankly, I'm not sure how to define "coherence" in art).
Anyway.
I like the idea of "school" qualifying as a "theatron"--maybe thinking that way helps to distinguish between what aids Liberal Art and what doesn't.
Graham
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Theater was religious,
ReplyDeleteoriginally, true?
Catharsis: the purgation
of fear AND pity--both,
so as to be able to see
without those 2 interferring
as they naturally do?
Purgatory: a purification.
Washed in the blood of the
spam.
The Play's the thing.
I agree with you: "coherence"
(and consistency) are words that
mean one think among logicians,
radically different and
incommensurate among artists.
And yet: the same words.
No wonder we confuse each other,
collapsing and conflating
realms of activity, yet using/
abusing the same words across
the curriculum.
Can't be helped. But maybe
seen--factored inn? Talked
about a lot so as to at least
be able to track the confusion?
Dramatize?
Best, Sam