Keith's right about resources. That is a crucial element. I
volunteered all that stuff about Dartington and Performance Writing
in the context of a discussion about the difference between writing
trainings and that available for visual artists. What Dartington does
have is resources - hence my stressing that the courses are located
in an Arts College context. The other departments are Music, Theatre
and Visual Performance. So there are reasonable to good resources for
sound, video, photography and so forth. The writers can borrow
laptops, digital and analogue cameras (both still and moving image)
and suchlike. They can make a piece with 10 people walking holding
dictaphones and talking at the same time. They can use a wide variety
of rooms for installations and work-in-progress showings.
Perhaps it's not a surprise that the majority of those who have
graduated over the past few years and are moving their work around
mostly turn up in gallery or new media spaces rather than theatre or
literary venues. Not exclusively of course. Nic Johnson is one case
in point and we are about to have a glut of more page and
poetry-based practitioners getting their work out there. Something we
are deliberately working towards. But that's another story.
love and love
cris
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