Theatre and institutions
The art that professes to please is distorted on contact with the hand it licks.
National funding of culture may have its raison d'être, but woe (or rather glory) to those who confuse responding to a command with obeying the commands of an institution that can only think of itself through the good tone of the moment.
The most "amateurish" and common image in the imagination of a large part of the population is that of this distressing affair, also known as the theatre.
Born from the mating of a stage and an audience, the performance comes into the world as the fruit of a pagan harvest.
When you create in a National Space, you don't meet the public, you meet the State. No artist can seriously claim to be free of it.
The paths of art cannot be traced in the footsteps of the voracious institution. Even less so those that only meander along infinite poetic breaks.
