Not my business to judge what viewers saw on their television screens as a result of this event – participation in the concert dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Open arts festival “Chereshnevy Les” and the 108th anniversary since the opening of the Pushkin Museum deprives me of this opportunity. But to Express the great joy of a real, live, not televised meeting with friends and colleagues who, along with all captured pandemic of self-isolation, cannot prevent one. Except that the chief editor of “WP”, which in this case I hope will be lenient.
15 March, after it was closed theaters and a concert venue for two and a half months we meet, as a rule, only in the Network in different virtual programs – people who are prisoners in separate cells on their computer screens. And this imitation of live communication only emphasizes the collective loneliness of each of us. All together and all alone. Became popular the phrase “no day without a Zoom” is reminiscent of the madness, which at first glance is close to common sense. Something very similar to real life, but in the end its only a color shade coloring book which only emphasizes the artificiality of what is happening. And every time it comes to mind that famous line from the play by Eugene Schwartz: “the Shadow! Know your place”. But can not escape, because this shadow belongs to you. A virtual copy which has a chance to live a lot longer than its psychophysical original.
of Course, my grumbling will cause a necessary rebuke to advanced people who have long settled in virtual reality. They believe that the digital revolution already pressed, and soon is pushed out of the big game archaists, clinging to the habits of the twentieth century. Well aware that without modern means and methods of communication we would be completely lost in this world pandemic. Don’t be the Network and its capabilities, our loneliness would be a lot more painful. But the Network – like analgesic, it only dulls the pain, but not cure the disease. Gives you the opportunity disembodied contact, who will never be friendly or loving embrace. It is clear that people who write in isolation, significantly increased, but one of them Pushkin, who turned Vibrio Boldin protonotary quarantined in Boldino autumn.
In the Greek hall, ironically the famous Arkady Raikin and Mikhail Zhvanetsky, famous vaudeville in miniature, Yevgeny Mironov read “Boldino autumn” David Samoilov, “And for the midnight write, and sleep past noon, /And be happy, and muttering in her sleep!/Thanks be to God – you are free/In Russia, in Boldin, in quarantine…” Live sounds and voices filled the space of the Museum on Volkhonka, prompting its treasures like sleeping beauties from fairy tales all over the world. And frozen plastic was discovered SPosobnosti emit a special light, responding to human passion, striving for heaven in word and music. Culture destroys any social distance. But no less social distance is unnatural to human nature, even in those ethnic groups and countries, where the territory of an individual is a “sacred cow”. New life is not born for social distance. This great natural conservatism of biological existence determines our destiny not only in the present but in the future. In any case, want to believe in it.
“Life of ideas”, wrote Goethe. Not by chance over the mysteries of “living life” puzzled great philosophers and writers. The word that editors pedants would never have left in the literary text, used to say Dostoevsky, the writer whose brilliant reflection into the abyss of the human consciousness, the tragic chaos of carnal passions. And in the divine inspiration guessed great power and beauty inconceivable “living life”.
Today, tirelessly repeated that the pandemic on the order has increased the power of virtual reality, and as you exit quarantine restrictions we will be forced to abandon the usual forms of life. In such statements there is a reason. But he cannot be absolutized. According to recent polls, more than 70% of students want to go back to the usual University audience. Business representatives believe that not all specialists work effectively remotely. Figures of culture and art that is learned and will learn during the forced physical separation from his audience, took possession of the new – virtual – instruments of creativity and enlightenment, dream to meet again and live an interested audience. After all, the final stage of the birth of any work of art is meeting with the reader, listener, viewer. The act of co-creation is necessary for all its participants.
