People need art, art needs people
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Note the opening BANG using an anecdote and the powerful closing BANG using figurative language of the portal, and the comment on the role of the artist....
Survey on Singaporeans' attitude towards the arts:
our artist colleagues, are among those deemed "non-essential" in a survey published last week by The Sunday Times.The arts community has erupted in outrage over the survey, which asked 1,000 respondents what jobs are most crucial in keeping Singapore going. The list of non-essential roles was topped by "artist" at 71 per cent.
it is really hard for me to argue that artists are essential - at least, not in the sense of "essential" used in the survey, which is "someone who is engaged in work deemed necessary to meet basic needs of human survival and well-being, such as food, health, safety and cleaning"... The fact remains that when it comes to the immediate survival of the body, art is not the most urgent of needs....But survival is insufficient, as Emily St John Mandel says in her 2014 post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven.
Today, few have endured this circuit breaker period without consuming art in some form, from the films you binge on Netflix to the theatre show you watch for free on YouTube, from the comic you chuckle at to the book you curl up with, to the music you dance to alone in your room. None of this would be possible without the input of artists, though it seems not all consumers are aware of this.
Art can:
= heal and uplift.
=It can provide solace, escape or warning.
=It can help in articulating the feelings of loss and grief so pervasive now.
=It can give us ways to envision a future beyond these times and, once we get there,
=it can record what we went through, so we do not forget.
=Artists have power, which they can use to give voice to and raise those with less privilege.
Author Arundhati Roy has described the pandemic as a "portal", a gateway through which we can "drag the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred... or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world". We count on essential workers to get us through that portal. Artists help us decide what to take through it.
Qn: ‘For the majority of people, the Arts are irrelevant to their daily lives.’ How true is this of your society? (Cam. 2014)
If can't access above link, click HERE
Note the opening BANG using an anecdote and the powerful closing BANG using figurative language of the portal, and the comment on the role of the artist....
Survey on Singaporeans' attitude towards the arts:
our artist colleagues, are among those deemed "non-essential" in a survey published last week by The Sunday Times.The arts community has erupted in outrage over the survey, which asked 1,000 respondents what jobs are most crucial in keeping Singapore going. The list of non-essential roles was topped by "artist" at 71 per cent.
it is really hard for me to argue that artists are essential - at least, not in the sense of "essential" used in the survey, which is "someone who is engaged in work deemed necessary to meet basic needs of human survival and well-being, such as food, health, safety and cleaning"... The fact remains that when it comes to the immediate survival of the body, art is not the most urgent of needs....But survival is insufficient, as Emily St John Mandel says in her 2014 post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven.
Today, few have endured this circuit breaker period without consuming art in some form, from the films you binge on Netflix to the theatre show you watch for free on YouTube, from the comic you chuckle at to the book you curl up with, to the music you dance to alone in your room. None of this would be possible without the input of artists, though it seems not all consumers are aware of this.
Art can:
= heal and uplift.
=It can provide solace, escape or warning.
=It can help in articulating the feelings of loss and grief so pervasive now.
=It can give us ways to envision a future beyond these times and, once we get there,
=it can record what we went through, so we do not forget.
=Artists have power, which they can use to give voice to and raise those with less privilege.
Author Arundhati Roy has described the pandemic as a "portal", a gateway through which we can "drag the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred... or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world". We count on essential workers to get us through that portal. Artists help us decide what to take through it.
Qn: ‘For the majority of people, the Arts are irrelevant to their daily lives.’ How true is this of your society? (Cam. 2014)
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