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During today's GP talk by some ex-AC guy from the NAC (National Arts Council), a certain Aileen Zhang character kept going on with her questions pertaining to the issue of using television as a medium to advertise and promote/display the Arts. More specifically, "why doesn't the NAC use television etc forms of media to display stuff to the audience?" Good question. The speaker didn't answer it too well IMO, though. All he said was "MediaCorp goes for stuff that people want to watch so they can get high viewership ratings" and "Arts Central is a money-bleeding division that Central would get rid of at the earliest possible chance".

Both are correct, but don't answer the question too well. The thing is, most of the local productions can't match up to foreign stuff (which MediaCorp and Channel 5 are importing by the ton), and are thus bypassed when it comes to picking for viewership ratings. And eventually Arts Central ends up buying them because they're cheap, and they get relegated to late-night slots which I am too fatigued to watch. Besides, the audience here is so unappreciative of the Arts that one is more likely to make a living from it overseas than here. Look at Serene (ahh, Yaofeng, I finally remembered her name) the model. She would have starved to death in Singapore streets.

I would like to go for an exhibition or something of the sort (not the ones made by RJ), but most of the ticket prices are way too high and the timings are all wrong, they don't fit into my schedule at all even though I'm CCA-free. So we'll wait and see, huh?

posted by k @ 9:27 pm