Some in the audience decided that the rules didn't apply to them, either.īut the core of the piece is certainly not the provocation of the audience it is the examination and direct address of the assumptions of said standard Western theater. With all deliberateness Handke violated the most basic rules of standard Western theater and then ended the piece with ten minutes of hilarious and inventive insults directed at the audience. 1942) remarkable theater piece Publikumsbeschimpfung (1966, available in English under the title "Offending the Audience") was such a succès de scandale on its opening night that German television was already there on the second night to film the performance! And here it is on YouTube: With all deliberateness Handke violated the most basic rules of standard Western theater and then ended the piece with ten minutes of hilarious and invent 1942) remarkable theater piece Publikumsbeschimpfung (1966, available in English under the title "Offending the Audience") was such a succès de scandale on its opening night that German television was already there on the second night to film the performance! And here it is on YouTube. In 1979, the CETA money had all but dried up, and United Technologies declined to renew its support of Thursday is a Work of Art.Peter Handke's (b.
The program was both loved and hated – the Hartford Courant covered it extensively, seemingly delighted by how silly and interactive it was, and simultaneously published letters to the editor in which people decried it for being trivial and making a mockery of one of its sponsors, United Technologies. relied on CETA funding to bring its irreverent “art attacks” to people in Hartford, challenging them to interact with the city in unusual ways.
It was created by Sidewalk, Inc., an offshoot of the Knox Foundation (a Hartford-based non-profit), and was funded by Knox, the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), and local corporations, including United Technologies.ĬETA was a federal law that provided money to train unemployed people for public service jobs, and in 19, the state of Connecticut received $3 million from CETA to employ people in the arts.įor two summers, Sidewalk, Inc. The art was sometimes political, often controversial and confrontational, and was meant to inject some life into the city center. Every Thursday, people who lived, worked, shopped, and socialized in the city were confronted with public performance art that changed each week. Label Text Thursday is a Work of Art was a public art program in downtown Hartford that took place for eight weeks in the summer of 1977 and 13 weeks in the summer of 1978.
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