Beautiful Trouble:
Tactics:
1.) Flash mob (unrehearsed, spontaneous, contagious, and dispersed mass action.)
When it comes to flash mob and the general public grasping the actual idea in regards to social change movements, I feel like the pop cultural phenomenon that it has become in the sates hinders the actual power behind it. Presently, the most talked about mobs have been more recently seen in episodes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, cute wedding videos, engagement/prom proposals, high school and college marketing videos, etc. The idea of using a flash mob to create social or artistic change seems like a fleeting hope.
2.) Hoax (create a momentary illusion that exposes injustice through satirical exaggeration.)
I love the idea of hoax and using is to publicise things that maybe wouldn't be able to catch much attention otherwise. In terms of now, I think people are really struggling with trust. Whether thats global issues, country issues, local issues, etc. The ability to trust is under attack due to the current admin. Not only is the trust at an all time low for some of us, we're facing a blatant attack on sources that aim to provide facts for the citizens. For me, hoax is a risk that can pay off, but in the current climate, the idea of it going unscathed by the public does not seemed likely.
3.) Legislative Theatre Having had the opportunity to explore the ideas of legislative theatre, I personally can advocate for the power in this tool. Legislative Theatre takes Augusto Boal’s practice of forum theatre and uses it as a tool for proposing and enacting legislative and policy changes at any level of government. In the practice of Legislative Theatre, the audience is presented with a short play about a particular issue that ends in a way that exposes the severity of the moment. The audience is then invited to help solve the issue by replacing the actors and brainstorming ways to fix the problem at hand. In having willing active audience members, it allows for an expansion of conversation between artist and spectator. The spectator never has to know the exact reason a certain performance was created or crafted, the idea of cause and effect allows active spectators to come to terms with his or her own personal relationship to what they experienced. In presenting theatre in this form, it allows the audience to actively question the events taking place.
Tactics:
1.) Flash mob (unrehearsed, spontaneous, contagious, and dispersed mass action.)
When it comes to flash mob and the general public grasping the actual idea in regards to social change movements, I feel like the pop cultural phenomenon that it has become in the sates hinders the actual power behind it. Presently, the most talked about mobs have been more recently seen in episodes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, cute wedding videos, engagement/prom proposals, high school and college marketing videos, etc. The idea of using a flash mob to create social or artistic change seems like a fleeting hope.
2.) Hoax (create a momentary illusion that exposes injustice through satirical exaggeration.)
I love the idea of hoax and using is to publicise things that maybe wouldn't be able to catch much attention otherwise. In terms of now, I think people are really struggling with trust. Whether thats global issues, country issues, local issues, etc. The ability to trust is under attack due to the current admin. Not only is the trust at an all time low for some of us, we're facing a blatant attack on sources that aim to provide facts for the citizens. For me, hoax is a risk that can pay off, but in the current climate, the idea of it going unscathed by the public does not seemed likely.
3.) Legislative Theatre Having had the opportunity to explore the ideas of legislative theatre, I personally can advocate for the power in this tool. Legislative Theatre takes Augusto Boal’s practice of forum theatre and uses it as a tool for proposing and enacting legislative and policy changes at any level of government. In the practice of Legislative Theatre, the audience is presented with a short play about a particular issue that ends in a way that exposes the severity of the moment. The audience is then invited to help solve the issue by replacing the actors and brainstorming ways to fix the problem at hand. In having willing active audience members, it allows for an expansion of conversation between artist and spectator. The spectator never has to know the exact reason a certain performance was created or crafted, the idea of cause and effect allows active spectators to come to terms with his or her own personal relationship to what they experienced. In presenting theatre in this form, it allows the audience to actively question the events taking place.
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