www.vulture.com: Celebrity architects and conductors fascinate for similar reasons. Both rely on institutionalized ventriloquism, where the master’s ideas are expressed by minions. They are solo figures in collaborative worlds, embracing complexity, managing teams, and taking credit for others’ work. And in both professions, the priestly nimbus has lately been besmirched.
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The title for this article, "The Case for the (Non-Harassing, Actually Brilliant) Genius", made me a little wary to read it at first, however the discussion within the piece was more interesting than one sided. It was interesting to me to start the article off by mentioning music conductors and writers and architects, because as the author of the article pointed out, they are singular artists in collaborative fields. As designers, I think that we play similar roles in the theatre world. We are specific to a single department, yet have to cater building parts of a world that will come together as a whole in the end. This being the case, there is more of a chance for people in jobs or roles like these to feel that they have more unbalanced power than others, and of course this can turn into things like sexual assault and harassment, etc. I hope that articles like this one become more common in the future as they add more voices and sides into common discussions and issues.
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