tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651145764236805587.post2366309449572424925..comments2024-03-06T08:27:42.713+00:00Comments on Deliq.: hello trees, hello flowersmaddy costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04929576408540749708noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651145764236805587.post-17843845633923121162013-05-06T16:01:07.845+01:002013-05-06T16:01:07.845+01:00I have to say, perhaps partly as a consequence of ...I have to say, perhaps partly as a consequence of the fact I can write as long or soon after a show for as long or as not-long as I like: "How long do you spend writing a review? And how soon after a show do you write it? Are you happy with this?" is a question to which I'd generally answer yes. <br /><br />I think some of its assumptions are also a bit pompous. <br /><br />Having also HATED Annie's <i>Best In The World</i> more than ANYTHING I saw in Edinburgh last year, and consequently just not written about it, I find myself with a whole bunch of different ethical questions. <br /><br />Pippa's tweet is about as poor a set of rationales for anything as I've ever seen, but one doesn't expect much from either Twitter or Pippa-as-a-critic. <br /><br />Have just posted two VERY GRUMPY reviews on Postcards (Lepage and Lustgarten) and it felt incredibly cathartic. Not everything is good and sometimes that just needs saying. I'm not sure we can just spend our whole time beating *ourselves* up. Sometimes it really is the artists' fault. <br /><br />(I imagine I'd lose count of the number of times Chris has dismissed an artist's work in fewer words than a tweet if I counted. Although I concede that would be in person not on Twitter.)Andrew Haydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615226061116376519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651145764236805587.post-68846794566209634622013-04-11T21:19:06.291+01:002013-04-11T21:19:06.291+01:00Wotcher. Love this piece. Just thinking:
>>...Wotcher. Love this piece. Just thinking:<br /><br /><i>>> Do I spend as much time thinking about these works as the people who make them? Of course not.</i><br /><br />Not in any way saying what follows in a barbed or facetious way, because I love that it's true, or that I think it's true...: I think actually you've probably spent more time thinking about GOD/HEAD than I spent making it.<br /><br />I mean it's hard to tell if that's true -- presumably for the four weeks I was making the show in the run-up to its first outing in London I was thinking about it most of every day so I probably got quite a big head start. But by the same token, I've barely given it a moment's thought since the last performances last November, and you're still working away with it, extending its journey, catching its echoes... So even if you haven't thought about it more than me, you've certainly been thinking about it for longer, and that's an important kind of "more" that's to do with Tass's thing and the ways in which work comes from the world and goes back out into the world.<br /><br />I have some sympathy with FS's jagged response to Pippa's tweet -- which does nothing but confirm my sense that to tweet negative reaction to work is a very clear and studied performance of disrespect to that work and its makers. (Which is sometimes called for, perhaps.) The concision of twitter is not just inadequate to critique, it's inimical to it, and I wonder in the light of what you describe here whether it's equally and oppositely inimical to a properly dimensionalised approach to open process. At least, it feels like the critical practices that are emerging through Dialogue and on other friendly lands are shoulder-to-shoulder with makers in terms of the depth and the shape of engagement with a process: not necessarily so intense (though that's partly a logistical thing: if CG&Co were rich and you were free of other responsibilities, we'd have you in the room with us every day, which is no less often than we're in the room...), but with the same intents, ho ho, see what I did there.<br /><br />So I don't think that FS statement about artists and critics is entirely accurate: or at least, it has in it a kind of hurt that I think you and I (and others on all sides) are exceedingly eager to remedy. Which I suppose is what this post is all about. Which makes this comment sublimely redundant.<br /><br />Hope you're having a lovely time. I should be writing to you about NT Studio week...<br /><br />xxChris Goodehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993698000314709291noreply@blogger.com