Shifting The Mission Of Public Education
Written by redqueeninla in LAUSD
I love performance art. Long ago I had the kick-ass opportunity of participating in a gigantic event, pre-cell-phone-era, with hundreds of dancers who took over the space in Philadelphia’s train station, working in 3D within all the different spaces suffused with different lighting and walkways and stained glass and the art deco fixtures – it was tremendous, a real spirit up-lifter for the whole community, so democratic and one-for-all and all-for one. Thousands of people left that public real-time art installation with our collective aesthetic backbones primed to beautify our civic lives. It was a communal win-win tour de force.
What a contrast with the Beaudry spectacle of last Tuesday where the collectivism was not communal but designed to eclipse, diminish, belittle and deny. That show was a tour de force as well, in real-time and involving ordinary every-day people, no denying that. But the force mustered emanated