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"We want to do everything. Art should not be proscribed by materials. We're interested in film because it's an incredibly important part of everybody's life in the 21st century."

"Allowing the audience to amble around where they want is exactly the intention of Dreamthinkspeak's Underground, another project from the Brighton festival. Although inspired by a classic narrative, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and taking place in a traditional space, Brighton's Theatre Royal, Underground seems intent on questioning the very experience of theatre itself. The audience enter three at a time through the stage door and after that they can wander around the building, where they may stumble across a vodka den in the orchestra pit, witness Raskolnikov's gruesome murder of the pawnbroker in one of the theatre dressing rooms, or peer underneath the stage and glimpse the murdered woman searching for her lost jewels and lost life. There is no story in the traditional sense of a linear narrative, merely a series of fragments that the audience can gather together and make sense of however they choose."

"Psychologist Dr Alison Kidd found popular taste in art has broken free of the established "great artists" and people are increasingly comfortable in choosing what they like rather than what experts believe is good.
She says while the market for art has been growing, most people are not interested in famous names
Conversations with people looking for framed posters reveals that they seek out a particular colour and shape irrespective of who painted it.
A popular trend at the moment is for "minimalist, blotchy, brown, chocolate canvasses". Others, she says, simply want something "for instance blue and stripey", a change from the past."