Art and Social Change

My favorite image was the illustration on page 46. The image of the goddess pitting herself between the warring humans and imploring them to stop with the war and the senseless violence. It's a striking image and it stood out to me most of all because it showed the other side of the coin. We saw so many images of propaganda that were fueling the war, and trying to get people out there, fighting each other, but then we see an image that's doing the opposite. It's graceful and elegant, and it's trying to shed light on the pointless, bloody nature of war. I found the inscription below it to be just as moving, "Both have fought hard and have suffered much in the name of humanity. Stay your hands and use your heads to find a basis of agreement."

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Emmanuel Bradshaw-Monuments article-wk4

While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...

Clare Morrissey-Art and Social Change Reader- Week 6

Art and Social Change Invisible Theatre Invisible Theatre is the art of creating a performance in spaces that are not stages. The people who witness it cannot be aware it is a performance or else they would become spectators. The way this can be done is creating a solid and locked script that the actors stick to but also know it so well it allows flexibility and the ability for them to mess with it when the people witnessing the act give input or there is any disruption. The actors will prepare for anything when it comes to their performance. It is imperative to choose a location where people gather in large groups in the public. An example of how this is done is by having actors play in a scene in a crowded restaurant with many patrons. You have one actor make a big fuss over a meal they hate and the waiter offers them the nicest meal, acknowledging the price which the actor eating the meal lets it be known that the price is o...

Scott Goldfarb Week 7

Assignment: Roberta Uno- Blog Post (due October 29th, 8pm) In preparation for Roberta Uno's visit next week, read her "Steps Towards A New World." In it she includes 11 precepts. In a blog post, address each of the following prompts: - What are the most important/significant ideas or elements outlined by Roberta and why? - What are the implications or resonances of Uno's precepts in your own practice? - What could be a metaphor or analogy for the kind of theater that Roberta Uno describes in this text? - What questions came up as you were reading this piece? I found that the most important concept in the text was how the organization is not simply chained to a building. The theatre is wherever it is necessary to be, and is defined by the community it envelopes, not the brick and mortar it houses. Community and working together collectively to create art is more important than finding a roadhouse or a nice stage. Interestingly to me, this ...

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