Monday, March 07, 2011
The New World Theatrical Order
Art Works: "On February 22nd, I was invited to attend a meeting with NEA Chair Rocco Landesman and about a dozen leaders of arts service organizations to discuss the #supplydemand conversation that he had started in late January at the From Scarcity to Abundance convening at Arena Stage. He broached this topic in front of over a hundred arts professionals with complete knowledge that the proceedings were being tweeted and blogged as part of the proceedings. He wanted to start a national conversation, and he knew this was the way to do it. If we had any doubts as to whether he was aware of what he was doing, they were dispelled on January 31st, a single day after Arena’s convening was over, when he wrote a follow-up blog post on the NEA blog that was entitled #supplydemand, which, of course, is a Twitter hashtag. Clearly, he wanted this conversation to take off, and he had learned from David Dower’s web savvy how to do it.
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Didn't I just say just this last week?
But all cynicism aside, it's refreshing to see someone with a similiar hopeful outlook on a very bleak problem: arts on the funding chopping block. But the praise of twitter and blogs leads to another very important question: will the electronic conversation happen and will it work? Hard to say, as much as twitter and blogs contribute to means of communication to what effect do they contribute? To be extremely optimistic: it helped start a revolution in Egypt. But to be pessimistic: that is not America. Americans are much more apathetic than people without free-elections (how ironic is that?) While theater and politics tend to go hand in hand, theater doesn't do much to change political climates, it's often the other way around. I hope the electronic discussion happens. I just tweeted my thoughts with a #supplydemand tag.
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