{"id":338,"date":"2003-07-16T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2003\/07\/the_clap_trap\/"},"modified":"2003-07-16T09:40:06","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T16:40:06","slug":"the_clap_trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_clap_trap.php","title":{"rendered":"The Clap Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Christiansen&#8217;s latest on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2003\/07\/16\/bacol16.xml&#038;sSheet=\/arts\/2003\/07\/16\/ixartleft.html\">increasingly tepid applause<\/a> at UK performing arts events makes an interesting guess at the cause:<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"blogquote\">\n&#8220;We are repeatedly exposed to the sounds and images of extreme drama, both actual and fictional. This may mean that the excitement that live music stimulates is less intense and surprising &#8211; we hear it, after all, every day, reproduced with a fidelity that wasn&#8217;t possible in the pre-FM, pre-digital era. The passivity of television and a certain fed-on-a-plate laziness about our consumption of art also contribute to the fall in the clapometer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bundled in there somewhere are two common thoughts about the live arts: that they are a &#8216;consumption&#8217; activity (where the artists &#8216;produce&#8217; and audiences &#8216;consume&#8217;), and that &#8216;hearing&#8217; a performance is comparable to &#8216;being there&#8217;. Both of these assumptions are worth challenging, because they always seem to lead us to the same frustrating conclusions: audiences are boors, desensitized by media, and they don&#8217;t appreciate what we produce.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf we want to stick to production metaphors (as business people often do), what if we considered the live arts as a co-creation, where both artist and audience construct the final result? In that world, participants on <i>both<\/i> sides of the proscenium are integral to the production process, and only the group of us in space and time can consume what we&#8217;ve created together.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Christiansen&#8217;s latest on the increasingly tepid applause at UK performing arts events makes an interesting guess at the cause: &#8220;We are repeatedly exposed to the sounds and images of extreme drama, both actual and fictional. This may mean that the excitement that live music stimulates is less intense and surprising &#8211; we hear it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}