Fears of the Artist Sustain a Dysfunctional System
By Jamil Khoury. The twenty-first century artist needs to be an artist entrepreneur. Once the artist more firmly controls artistic production, the threat of economic retaliation and banishment greatly subsides. Only then will our conversations on race and representation reflect the realities of the world in which we live. None of us need to do theater that operates within a failed paradigm, one that tokenizes or pret…