last night, sunday, at the end of tech weekend
we had some folks come in and move thru a rough run of parts of the event
we were especially interested in their experience of the game
it seemed to go well
and, we got useful feedback
i fel like the more we experiment with our combination of direct exchange with the audience. leading conversations, game playing, and whole group spectator moments, the more it becomes important to think about the larger conversation we're moving people through, and in fact joining them to have
ehren brought up yesterday a question about whether a certain scene helped the event move on to its next moment...or, if it was placed a bit early in relation to the flow of ideas
and that got me thinking about the decisions we make in making art
and, the decisions we make in our daily lives, as we try to make sense out of the swirling moments and choices we encounter each and every day
when those decisions cause our needs to intersect with the needs of others...how in the world do we make those decisions in conscious ways, day after day...?
when do we practice that?
does this piece simply ask that decisions themselves have to, for an hour or a bit more, be the focus of experience...
in a similar vein, this site
http://transopoly.cnt.org/
i think, asks very similar questions...
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"If you were planning a city
if you got think about what was most important to you to create a vision of a city that could give you what you want and what a city needs - what values are most important?"
So this struck me because it doesn't seem that cut and dry always, yes? I mean choosing a city is so often based on where, and what [we'll be doing once we're there] and who [we'll be doing it with] that to have a vision of a city just seems odd.
I mean in the way that we vision anything - the dream job, the person we want to marry, the person we want to be - these seem somehow more controllable, or at least an easier decision to make. Yes, it's based on what are interests are and how they intersect with others, but its also based on who we are at any given time in our lives.
Where do you choose to live? How do you envision an ideal city? That is practically Utilitarian and maybe even goes back to our founding 'fathers' and their vision of a egalitarian state. But I digress. I guess what I'm wondering is does anyone else find this a difficult question to answer, because the function of the question itself is so much larger than self and where one chooses to live, like whom one chooses as one's life partner, is so deeply personal.
Which begs another question, about civic engagement, doesn't it? We're talking about being actively involved in creating your community, aren't we?
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