On 04/07/2011 22:44, Melissa Harrington wrote:
Pity - can i repost your comment below?
mogg
> Dear All
>
> The Dee Opera was indeed an opera, with much serious funding, to be
> used in the olympics, incorporating the English National Orchestra;
> and the quality of the cast, theatrics, sets and directing was so good
> I really enjoyed all of it but Damon Albarn's incongruous busker style
> commentaries. Stunning effects, well worth watching and a good
> afternoon out, but be aware that the magic you see will be on a par
> with that of a wicked witch or fairy Godmother in the local Christmas
> panto, this is a materialist reading which conflates necromancy and
> enochian scrying, focusses on politics and the mundane aspects of the
> Dee/Kelley journey, and is in essence a faustian morality tale. I will
> write a proper review this week.
>
> Dear Justin
>
> I love this question, but the answer is perhaps something huge we are
> all working on together on this list!
>
> "Some say art is a mirror, others a hammer. I can't help but see it
> more as a reflexive (sometimes unconscious) spasm responding to the
> sociopolitical conditions an artist lives within. If we agree that art
> is a means of materialising and holding suspended the immaterial
> invisible aspects of being, What does all this spasming around the
> occult Say about the conditions of our time?
> "
>
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