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Dear AACORN, My art is storytelling. I think that storytelling can be an itnervention, one that brings about economic development. Storytelling is the interplay of narrative as text and story as life world along with certain bets about the future that are called antenarratives. Whereas narrative is re-presentation of experience in a retrospective (past-looking) chronology of events, ‘living story’ can be more about reflexivity upon ones situation in the life world (here & now). Antenarrative is all those aspirations about what the future will be (antenarratives). Living story is about entering into and living life, co-experiencing life with others, co-evaluating it from an insider's view, and co-identifying it happening to you and the Other. Stories are more dialogic than narrative because there are many sides of story interplaying all at once. Story is dialogic in many ways: multi-voiced (polyphonic), multi-perspectival (polylogical), an interplay of many stylistic genres (not only narrative-text, but face-to-face conversation), a dramaturgy of action among many players, a visual juxtaposition (in architecture), various conceptions time and space relations (known as chronotopes, and a multiplicity of discourses (such as cognitive, aesthetic, & ethical). Narratives, by contract, are often just one-side, one voice, or a voice quoting other voices, but not being in living relationship to them. Narrative re-presentation, antenarrative anticipation of the future, and living story reflexivity on the Now are equally important to storytelling. For more on this see --- Boje, D. M. & Rosile, G.A. 2008. Narrative Analysis. In Mills, Albert J.; Durepos, Gabrielle; & Wiebe, Elden (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. CA: Sage. See pre-press chapter draft pdf. I think we have an interesting case study of how to use storytelling to promote arts & culture. Artists Virginia Maria, Trina, and I meet this morning with Dean Carruthers of our Business College this morning. The press release helps to announce the story of what we are doing to the university. We hope to enroll his story leader skills. We hope to establish the Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission that is a network organization (what I call a Storytelling Organization) of some 100 leaders from organizations in the University, 2 Chambers of Commerce, the City, and some 58 arts service organizations and 41 galleries and museums. We are organizing as a way that will attract art buyers to Las Cruces, New Mexico. Currently we are undiscovered, hidden under the shadow of Santa Fe. We think this will need the involvement of New Mexico State University leaders who begin to tell stories about the economic potential of this Arts & Cultural Center. As this happens that Arts Industry will grow. As the media puts it out there, that story will be an attractor, as well. The reports for this storytelling adventure are available online at http://peaceaware.com/talkingstick More on Storytelling Organization at http://storytellingorganization.com I thought the project might be of interest to AACORN. Oftentimes the arts and culture scene is not treated as an industry, as source of employment and arts and cultural tourism. We hope that storytelling interventions will restory all of that. We think there are some tired dominant narratives that are what Nietzsche called 'antiquarian' that need to be left in the past. We think that story noticing of what is going on in the Now and Here is needed. david Begin forwarded message: > From: Ucomm <[log in to unmask]> > Date: April 28, 2008 3:39:43 PM MST > To: Ucomm <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: NMSU News Release - NMSU plans to put Las Cruces art on > the map > > New Mexico State University News Release > > > > ATTN: CITY DESK – > > > > > > April 28, 2008 > > WRITER: Justin Bannister, (575) 646-5981, or [log in to unmask] > > CONTACT: David Boje, (575) 646-2391, or [log in to unmask] > > > > NMSU plans to put Las Cruces art on the map > > > > Faculty and students from the New Mexico State University > College of Business are working with the City of Las Cruces and > local artists to let the world know about the Las Cruces arts > scene. They believe the community is missing out on what could > become a major enterprise and the revenue that a vibrant art scene > would generate. > > “Arts and culture is a major employment source for the State > of New Mexico,” said David Boje, management professor at NMSU. > “Right now, Las Cruces is under the shadow of Santa Fe and Taos. > Las Cruces should have that same potential.” > > The group is working to create an artistic identity for the > City of Las Cruces by developing an infrastructure to promote local > art and artists. > > “Las Cruces probably has just as many, if not more artists > than Santa Fe,” said Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima. “From a > business standpoint, it would be huge to have that kind of > attraction here.” > > “A prominent art scene is an additional reason to visit Las > Cruces,” said Virginia Maria Romero, a local artist. She has lived > in Las Cruces for 18 years. > > “This would help generate the same kinds of opportunities > for artists to sell their works in this area rather than traveling > to other parts of the state,” she said. > > As part of the plan, the group has established a number of > goals including creating a Las Cruces arts and cultural affairs > commission. The commission would advise the city on investing in > the arts. This group would be composed of member arts organizations > along with representatives from the Las Cruces mayor's office, the > Las Cruces Convention and Visitor's Bureau, the Greater Las Cruces > Chamber of Commerce, New Mexico State University and other > community and regional leaders. The group would also be responsible > for keeping a comprehensive artist's directory and arts calendar. > > The plan also calls for developing funding sources to > purchase arts for Southern New Mexico; fostering live/work/retail > space, studios, and arts facilities in available, vacant properties > in Las Cruces; and recruiting a Las Cruces entrepreneur to do tours > of the Las Cruces Arts Scene. > > Artists Ruth Drayer and Virginia Maria Romero along with > David Boje and MBA student Rafella Moskhalis presented their > proposal to the Las Cruces City Council last week. They plan to do > the same in future meetings with NMSU Regents, local chambers of > commerce and other government and community organizations in the > coming months. > > -30- > > *** > > >