Word: rimer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Rimer explains, "We want people to realize art isn't dead, that it is part of the community in which we live...[If] you force people into seeing art, they'll enjoy it, it will speak to them and become real. Art should serve a political and cultural function for everyone--it's not just cocktail talk. Art shouldn't be aristocratic, this is a socializing and democratizing process...
...Museums, the Carpenter Center and even the steps of Widener. (Next year they plan to invade the dorm rooms). In an effort to intensify the bond between art and our daily lives, Agitprop is waging a war for cultural coolness on all fronts. The aim, according to the pithy Rimer, is "passion, not fashion...