Maine Artists Only

[rolanni]

A note from someone (apparently) from the Maine Arts Commission, posted down in
this thread reminds Maine artists that there is a "constituent survey" now in progress here.

Only Maine artists may play, but any Maine artist may play. Though the Maine Arts Commission leans heavily toward visual artists (let's face it -- it's easier and more exciting to point at a sculpture or a painting or a play and say, "Look! Art!" to Cultural Tourists -- than it is to hold up a book and say, "Look! Art!"), they do allow writers to speak as artists.

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Also, the MAC idea of "writer" seems to lean toward "poet" rather heavily . . .

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

This is true. I think it's because poetry has sorta morphed into a kind of performance art, and can thus be pointed at and Observed.

Face it, nobody wants to watch either of us sit in the window of a department store, staring at the screen until the drops of blood break out on our foreheads...

writing as performance art?

[(Anonymous)]

Ages ago, I was at a con where Harlan Ellison did exactly that. He set up a clear plastic tent in the lobby, and wrote a story in front of everyone, banging away at a typewriter and taping pages to the tent as he finished them. I heard that he sold the story, too.

Incidentally, while it was supposedly written "on the spot," I noticed that he had a big lab notebook that he pulled out and leafed through at times. I always wondered what was in that notebook.

Maybe that was a forerunner of the Storyteller's Bowl? We didn't have any web then...

Re: writing as performance art?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me. Somehow got logged out...
Mike