Friday, February 25, 2011
Art Talk with Writer Bassey Ikpi
Art Works: "Bassey Ikpi is a Nigerian-born writer who was a featured cast member in the National Touring Company of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show, Russell Simmon’s Def Poetry Jam. She is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and is currently working on a memoir documenting her life living with Bipolar II Disorder.
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Bassey Ikpi sounds like a fascinating woman. I really admire "spoken word artists". I think that it is a truly the most expressive art form. It is art that is life, it doesn't imitate it, and it expresses it. It is interesting to compare theater to spoken word. Because the two are similar, but spoken poetry is usually from the I perspective, and it is so intriguing because it simultaneously breaks the 4th wall and pulls you in closer. You are intrigued by this person's own story but you also realize that you are watching a performance. It is a performance of the real. I agree with her about what art is and what it can do. Every writer that I have ever met has had the same story of being hit with the need to write from a very young age. This shows that it truly does have to come from with in. Writers can be perfected but I don't think that they can be created.
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