Open AccessImprovising a Way Out of Darkness
Author(s) -
Patricia Nicholson Parker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical studies in improvisation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1712-0624
DOI - 10.21083/csieci.v14i2.6430
Subject(s) - improvisation , the arts , art , visual arts , resistance (ecology) , performing arts , performance art , aesthetics , sociology , art history , ecology , biology
Patricia Nicholson Parker is the founder and director of the New York-based non-profit arts organization Arts for Art. In this piece, she writes of the ways in which improvisation is central to her work as both an artist and an organizer. She sees improvisation as a strategy of resistance to the degradation of “the sacredness of Life itself.”