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IN ARTISTS' OPINION, THEY ARE SPLIT LIKE PEOPLE
Noyan Tapan
April 8, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The meeting organized on April 8
in the Hayeli (Mirror) club was dedicated to the problems of the
cultural sphere.
Producer Vigen Stepanian and actor of G. Sundukian State Academic
Theater Tigran Nersisian took part in the meeting. Both artists gave
assurance that the public-political phenomena and situation in the
country are closely connected with culture and its development.
"We, artists are split like the people: when somebody finds fault,
blackens any of us, the others do not speak in support of him. It
is evidence that we not only fail to consolidate with each other,
but also to consolidate over the theater," they emphasized.
"There is much to do in the cultural sphere. Everything is in a
confusion.
Disgraceful things inappropriate to art and artist take place," Tigran
Nersisian said. He is convinced that this indifferent attitude to
cultural sphere comes not only from this or that minister or ministry,
but from higher instances: "it is seen clearly from the amount of money
allocated to culture and the place culture takes on this or that list:
it is always either in the last or at best in the penultimate place."
Vigen Stepanian is convinced that over these years the Ministry of
Culture failed to solve an important problem, to work out cultural
policy of strategic significance for the country. According to him,
cultural policy is not organization of concerts and exhibitions,
but organization of the whole cultural sphere, starting from cultural
education.
Agreeing with his colleague, Tigran Nersisian added that in this
complicated situation some artists, who try to take a place in the
history of theater, destroy and ruin everything created over many
years. "I do not mind their willingness to strengthen their positions
and to take a place in a new genre: let them act in the very genre
and not try to destroy repertoire theaters and to make a name in
theater's history that way."
Noyan Tapan
April 8, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The meeting organized on April 8
in the Hayeli (Mirror) club was dedicated to the problems of the
cultural sphere.
Producer Vigen Stepanian and actor of G. Sundukian State Academic
Theater Tigran Nersisian took part in the meeting. Both artists gave
assurance that the public-political phenomena and situation in the
country are closely connected with culture and its development.
"We, artists are split like the people: when somebody finds fault,
blackens any of us, the others do not speak in support of him. It
is evidence that we not only fail to consolidate with each other,
but also to consolidate over the theater," they emphasized.
"There is much to do in the cultural sphere. Everything is in a
confusion.
Disgraceful things inappropriate to art and artist take place," Tigran
Nersisian said. He is convinced that this indifferent attitude to
cultural sphere comes not only from this or that minister or ministry,
but from higher instances: "it is seen clearly from the amount of money
allocated to culture and the place culture takes on this or that list:
it is always either in the last or at best in the penultimate place."
Vigen Stepanian is convinced that over these years the Ministry of
Culture failed to solve an important problem, to work out cultural
policy of strategic significance for the country. According to him,
cultural policy is not organization of concerts and exhibitions,
but organization of the whole cultural sphere, starting from cultural
education.
Agreeing with his colleague, Tigran Nersisian added that in this
complicated situation some artists, who try to take a place in the
history of theater, destroy and ruin everything created over many
years. "I do not mind their willingness to strengthen their positions
and to take a place in a new genre: let them act in the very genre
and not try to destroy repertoire theaters and to make a name in
theater's history that way."