I totally agree that time constraint can help reduce procrastination or at least help us hone in on just generating/making “good enough”.
I also know that there’s a whole world of invisible artists with disabilities and poor workers etc for whom this may not be viable or simple.
Sometimes we need lots of rest and retreat. There’s so many variables, many of which are designed oppressions.
So its good to have options, especially mindset options for various situations.
Im directing my friends one woman show currently and they have to create a deadline where an audience shows up for them to get the energy to rearrange their life to make-the-thing.
Me, im lucky if i can create the time and artistic distance to make anything of my own thats not for survival demands, so i have a ton of devising techniques that take less than 5 minutes and dont require much in terms of supplies.
Absolutely! That’s what much of the end of this post is about - availability is not distributed equally, and it’s a privilege to have any at all. But it’s also not necessarily the magic solution it’s often cracked up to be.
Not to romanticize what you’re describing, but the fact that you’ve devised creative routines that explicitly take less time/fewer supplies suggests that in some cases, restriction can breed creativity, because it gives you a starting point of sorts.
I totally agree that time constraint can help reduce procrastination or at least help us hone in on just generating/making “good enough”.
I also know that there’s a whole world of invisible artists with disabilities and poor workers etc for whom this may not be viable or simple.
Sometimes we need lots of rest and retreat. There’s so many variables, many of which are designed oppressions.
So its good to have options, especially mindset options for various situations.
Im directing my friends one woman show currently and they have to create a deadline where an audience shows up for them to get the energy to rearrange their life to make-the-thing.
Me, im lucky if i can create the time and artistic distance to make anything of my own thats not for survival demands, so i have a ton of devising techniques that take less than 5 minutes and dont require much in terms of supplies.
Absolutely! That’s what much of the end of this post is about - availability is not distributed equally, and it’s a privilege to have any at all. But it’s also not necessarily the magic solution it’s often cracked up to be.
Not to romanticize what you’re describing, but the fact that you’ve devised creative routines that explicitly take less time/fewer supplies suggests that in some cases, restriction can breed creativity, because it gives you a starting point of sorts.