Comments - Where are all the working class artists? - National Theatre Wales Community2024-03-19T06:38:51Zhttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=3152760%3ABlogPost%3A264813&xn_auth=noSounds great. Hope it went we…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2017-04-04:3152760:Comment:2647562017-04-04T22:18:22.323ZChristina Handkehttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChristinaHandke
<p>Sounds great. Hope it went well!</p>
<p>Sounds great. Hope it went well!</p> totally agree- but at every l…tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2017-04-04:3152760:Comment:2648542017-04-04T19:45:45.627Zjo munton-vagabondi puppetshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/jomuntonvagabondipuppets
totally agree- but at every level classism creeps in to the organising structures of our own arts world. We are continually being asked to fit in to a middle class world of nice tight polite meetings and over requirement for high levels of a particular kind of literacy. and they don't even know the chasms of difference between the way that have been taught to see the world and what many others have experienced it. I don't see it as an us and them. Cos I don't think we, working class artists are…
totally agree- but at every level classism creeps in to the organising structures of our own arts world. We are continually being asked to fit in to a middle class world of nice tight polite meetings and over requirement for high levels of a particular kind of literacy. and they don't even know the chasms of difference between the way that have been taught to see the world and what many others have experienced it. I don't see it as an us and them. Cos I don't think we, working class artists are hardly seen, even when in full view. Unless they are speaking in a language the privilege understand.<br />
For example I managed to pull the biggest audience a particular welsh art gallery, dropped into the heart of chavs ville, had ever seen. But when I read their yearly review the excellent dance company that had unfortunately only got a audience of two get a full write up and we were not even mentioned. Cos as a chav artist I understand what a chac<br />
Those concentrating on engagement over production values are considered low art at best and poor quality at worst. But whose quality? Chav is still used a diss but we have to realise we have a unique cultural perspective.