Sunday, January 25, 2009

theatricality and anti-theatricality

once i had freed myself from the training of the act,
i was accessible and open to a new and appreciative audience

issues concerning the relationship between the
effort and the viewer standing before it became crucial
for my voracious capacities as they had never previously endured

now they prepare themselves for a lengthy,
meditative relationship with the exemplification

this is a theory i have talked about before

i suggest the quandary arises in the division between

theatricality;
when a work looks deliberately outwards
and declares itself to an anticipated audience

and anti-theatricality;
when the elements of a work are constructed
without any visible concession being made to an
audience, or even to the idea of an audience, and
the information within the work belongs to a
world of their own, in other words, when the work
does not require the audience's participation
to make it complete

using both means and methods
of this theoretical equation,
my work is grounded in the belief
that all life is permeated with
the original potency that shaped
the entire universe and resides
in both suppositions and promulgations

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