Friday, May 17, 2019
A personal performance manifesto based on the 21st century
A Manifesto is a document that seeks to pass certain information around a certain sequel as viewed by somebody. Personal surgical operation Manifestos as such, argon therefore documents that consists of an Individuals views, about how an artiste demos should be created and presented. carrying into action Manifesto history muckle be traced subscribe to the early 1910s when groups of artists which included futurists, Dadaists and the likes, employ them to express their views on what art really was and what it encompassed.There after death penalty manifesto have been recurrently use with main embassies associated to avant-garde Modernism. Thus rise in the use of personal effect manifesto can be also associated to the emergence of internet applied science which has created a potential world wide audience.According to Tristan Tzara (A historic artist), A mathematical operation manifesto is like a communication made to the whole world, whose main extensiveness is on the disc e veryplacey of an instant cure for political, sociable, astronomical, economical artiste and literary syphilis. (Lee Scivner ). Performance of artiste presentations since their start hundreds of years back has undergone a series of transformation.This has been occasioned by things like, changing level of technology and preferences of people among some(prenominal) other reasons. Performance of hundred years back is very different with coetaneous performances in m any(prenominal) aspects ranging from the styles, genres among many other aspects.However, these alters are non enough to satisfy the haves of the modern society. Worse still the rapid change have caused some other valuable aspects which were common in diachronic performances to be ignored. Due to the supra two reasons personal performance manifestos have been on the increase especially from critics and friends of theatre.A keen scrutinization of majority of this performance manifesto shows a uniform, a similar and a c ommon argument, that the contemporary society is becoming to a greater extent informed day by day and hence haves retirement and competency in habitual theatric performance.To begin, it would be fair to say that the contemporary society is dying to see a performance that is socio-political, economic, and erotical, mystical, that does non just make people amused for exchange of their hard-earned cash.The contemporary society needs performances that grows up not knowing it is performance at all, a performance given the chance of having a string superlative of zero.(Harron, C. and Wood, P (2006) Art in Theory, 1900 2000 an anthology of changing ideas. 2 ed. USA Blackwell Publishing).The above things can only be achieved by doing extraneous with bourgeois sickness, commercialized culture, work of dead performance, imitation, artificial performance, Abstract performance, illusionist performance and Mathematical performances. Inn addition all people including both materially and mor ally (Fluxes manifestation by George Meckonaz 1963).Once more contemporary society is desperate for performance that go immix many cultures of the world. We are subsisting in a world full of socio-political and economic in judges and therefore any avenue which seeks to take us away from these injustices is highly wel arrestd.In many instances performances have been staged with the main aim of addressing these injustices nevertheless sincerely sermon it has not been enough. Therefore there is a great need form performance which will integrate the diverse cultures in view of addressing the above injustices which in most cases are brought about by heathenish differences.Art, Music and Poetry the three mean genres of performance need to be fully recognized by the relevant authorities. It is only by due recognizers that the quality of performance will be improved. This is because potential and practicing performances will start taking their work seriously and therefore give a per formance which is in bank bank bill with twenty-first Century performance expectations. The relevant authorities have included Ministries in charge of social affairs and governments.The above views and opinions about the fate of performance in respect to 21st degree Celsius expectations do not mean the state of performance as of now are pathetic. This is only an eye waster to the stakeholders in the performance industry so that they can pull up their socks and live to the standards of the changing world.As a matter of fact contemporary performance can be said to be among the very many sectors which have struggled to stay in level with changes of time and technology. It is not a surprise therefore modern styles of performance have sprouted all over.For instance in Music new styles have come up with the latest being hi-hop music. Contemporary artists (sculptors, painters) Writers, Poets are also doing a commendable job but t is imperative that they put more efforts in their work to stay in level with the 21st Century demands.Another area sensitive to performance industry is production of artistic whole kit and caboodle. This is where contemporary performance is failing as compared to historic performances. With emerging technology it is obvious production of artists work is done with care and without any problems arising, but it is sad to not that unscrupulous pirates are making use of value in technology to come up with illegal publications of these artistic works without the consent of the artists producer.This needs to be done away with once and for all, so as to let the real beneficiaries of royalties coming from the sale of their music.This manifesto also covers the improvement of performance instruments and equipments as another key method of taking performances in general to a higher(prenominal) level in congeneric to 21st Century. Most of artistic performances require the accompaniment of instruments. As such, therefore latest instruments and eq uipments need to be invented and pt into constant use. Many are time when potential performers are limited to the option of producing their items. This is sometimes due to lack of enough funds to access the equipments.There is dire need also to change the mode of presentation of performances.. A new mode or language of presentation should be introduced so as to help save the audience of the usual common place methods of performance presentation.Lastly it is important that the actors and the audience collaborates and share ideas as to what really needs to be addressed in the contemporary performances. This will enable actors and artists to come up with only those performances that are morally upright and help the contemporary society in solving mysteries of nature.This manifesto is not in any way exhaustive as to what needs to be done or not in contemporary performances to meet the 21st century demands. Therefore the above listed views and opinions may be challenged but of importance to note is that they were arrived at after a careful scrutization of the current and historical performance trends. They are practically possible to implement and therefore result driven.A Critical Reflection of the above Personal Performance ManifestoOnce again it is in order to note that the musical composition of Manifestos is not a practice which has started just the other day as explained above.Manifesto writing has been with us over the last one hundred years. Critics and artists write manifestos so as to relay a message of dissatisfaction of a previous practice and therefore put forth a correctional course of action. In relation to the above manifesto for the 21st century it is crystal clear that the previous practices employed in performance industry needs to be overhauled if the 21st century demands and expectations are to be realized.The manifestos recommendations are therefore not in any way hollow, they are commonplace. Yes but greatly serves to put the level of perfor mances in the right track towards the 21st century expectations.The Manifesto talked of performances that are in themselves informing. It is just sad to note that even today people continue staging performances which are substandard despite many efforts by other people who are determined to take performance industry a level higher.This block seeks to bring out the difference between what contemporary performance should give its audience as compared to the historical performances when things were very different from what they are today.In respect to Karen Finley who is currently based in New York, performance need also to take a different dimension if they will continue being used as a tool for informing, educating and also entertaining.Karen has pushed beyond the boundaries of normal practices and natural acts and as a result her works have drawn a lot of attention.Although this much attention led her in to waling along the corridors of justice following low suits filed against her work by politicians it is a nice piece of work for the 21st century.
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