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This episode is dedicated to my life-long friend and mentor, Beth Chatten.
When the Greek ancient actor stepped out of the chorus, thousands of years ago, to comment on the action going on in the play - it must have been the equivalent of cultural nuclear fission.
In this first full length episode of the Clickbait Citizen Podcast we examine the role of the theatre director in overseeing the encounter between performer and audience, the grammar of dramaturgy (privilege and mimesis) in theatre and cinema, and the way professional politicians have been highly adept at employing the power of performance across a wide spectrum of their own activities.
In the next episode, The Dark Side of Democracy, we examine how art and culture has often interacted in a complex way with ethnonationalism. Understanding these processes helps us devise artistic strategies to counter these tendencies in todays world.
Text: Chris Baldwin - based on the Clickbait Citizen publications Privilege and Mimesis (28th February 2025) and Culture and Nuclear Fission (14th March 2025).
Music: Paul Alan Barker
Other Music: Shostakovich Symphony Number 1 (Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic 1971 Open Source)
Kaunas Kantata: Philip Miller (composer)
Mystery Zero: Angelos Triantafyllou (composer)
Image: “East/West” (Sofia, Bulgaria): Andrei Molodkin/Santiago Sierra
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