Word: agitprop
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...GITPROP WANTS YOUR MIND--WANTS TO BLOW IT UP, freak it out and float it to a higher plane of consciousness. The goal is mass artistic awareness, and for Agitprop, art is everywhere. Living up to its funky monniker, a condensation of "agitation propaganda," Agitprop digs up facets of our culture and packages them for popular consumption. After only two years, this energetic arts group has organized many offbeat events to accomplish their goal...
Last year, Danny Rimer '93, Mathew Lee '92, and Matthew Butterick '92 were agitated by what they termed the trendy, upper-East-Side art propagated by Harvard's Triptych, (a group which had been in existence for three years) and conceived of Agitprop as a means of providing an alternative approach to cultural awareness. Simply put, Agitprop aims to mobilize interest in the arts at Harvard. Rimer explains that the most effective means to this end is to "coerce a response," and indeed, their events are designed to seize attention and elicit an emotional reaction...
They mean it, too. Agitprop works hard to make all aspects of culture accessible, expanding their target population beyond cliques of angst-ridden artistes to the entire Harvard-Radcliffe community; beyond the usual repertoire of painting and sculpture to live music, talks given by professors, graphic design, performance art and cheerleadings and beyond. Tryptych's exhibition site in the basement of Memorial Church to the open-aired squash courts at Adams House into the previously unexplored realms of the Busch-Reisinger, Fogg and Sackler Museums, the Carpenter Center and even the steps of Widener. (Next year they plan to invade...
...DIFFICULT TO call agitprop against South Africa hard-hitting; how many pro-apartheid plays get mounted in the U.S.? But THE SONG OF JACOB ZULU, which Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe brought to Broadway last week, redeems its overlong preachments with Eric Simonson's deft direction and K. Todd Freeman's luminous acting of the title role, especially a final monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland...
...Whitney mounts a theme show of whining agitprop...