Nothing Is Ever Black and White

This idea goes back to the first class we had when Dr. Fletcher asked us what Theatre was. Many of us had very different answers, yet all were correct. Because, theatre cannot be defined as just one thing. Performance Art is a great mediator that shows us this. In itself, it has various different forms, interpretations, messages, and goals. I would agree, however, that with technology, society, and now, social media, performers are constancy evolving and creating new acts/art that we can relate to, dive into, and possibly change based on the "norms" of now. This gives it potential to in a sense, dilute itself and possibly lose its artistic expression. Though, I do believe if it came to that, artists would then revert back to what it was before to then change the "norm" again, and it would become this sort of cycle of art. 

When it comes to "imagined memory", I couldn't think of something very recent, so I reverted to my years as a wee little lad. When I was very young, about 5 or 6, I would watch The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, The Legend of Zoro, The Lone Ranger, and many other black and white films and television shows. For some reason, I believed that at a certain point in time, everything was black and white, and by some miraculous phenomenon humans discovered color. I was obviously taught otherwise shortly after, but it made me realize that because of what I saw on television, and the VHS tapes of recorded family memories (all in black and white), it almost seemed natural to think that things used to be that way. It was then very cool to learn that we always saw color, and the camera technology from back then could not produce color, rather than the human eye.