My thoughts about the audience.
I'm not very clear when writing, this is better discussed over a cup of tea with me sitting calmly down and making big gestures with my hands and eyes.
I like to think about the audience as humans. People. Individuals. Yes, perhaps they, we, do behave in a certain way when in a performance a la black box context. So many unspoken rules how to behave in various contexts. I say be brave. Be you, and don't follow the crowd if it doesn't feel right. This is the responsibility we all have towards each other, and ourselves.
My thoughts go a bit beyond the idea of an audience... bare with me.
Personally I'm not interested in the words consumer and market. When I make a piece, a production if you prefer to use that word, I'm not in the first hand interested in selling it. I would like to share it with others yes, and survive while doing so, but in my naive world the first thing I'm interested in is the meeting. The meeting between all those lovely people out there and what has been created. Together it becomes something new, something unspoken. Otherwise, Why would I be on a stage? In a theatre setting?
I don't need to of course if I want to share with people. I could ask them kindly to go out of the box. This is what I mean. Why them, and us? Why box? Tickets?
Well, this can be discussed.
Just putting it out there.
The world is changing, perhaps our words should too? Definitions are tricky.
It's great that you've started this project with möte09, it does need a closer look.
I'm up for it.
Thanks
Maria Svensson
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My thoughts about the audience.
I'm not very clear when writing, this is better discussed over a cup of tea with me sitting calmly down and making big gestures with my hands and eyes.
I like to think about the audience as humans. People. Individuals. Yes, perhaps they, we, do behave in a certain way when in a performance a la black box context. So many unspoken rules how to behave in various contexts. I say be brave. Be you, and don't follow the crowd if it doesn't feel right. This is the responsibility we all have towards each other, and ourselves.
My thoughts go a bit beyond the idea of an audience... bare with me.
Personally I'm not interested in the words consumer and market. When I make a piece, a production if you prefer to use that word, I'm not in the first hand interested in selling it. I would like to share it with others yes, and survive while doing so, but in my naive world the first thing I'm interested in is the meeting. The meeting between all those lovely people out there and what has been created. Together it becomes something new, something unspoken. Otherwise, Why would I be on a stage? In a theatre setting?
I don't need to of course if I want to share with people. I could ask them kindly to go out of the box. This is what I mean. Why them, and us? Why box? Tickets?
Well, this can be discussed.
Just putting it out there.
The world is changing, perhaps our words should too? Definitions are tricky.
It's great that you've started this project with möte09, it does need a closer look.
I'm up for it.
Thanks
Maria Svensson