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Though I am a performance artist, I find it increasingly difficult to define what performance art is. I can tell you what it is not. Performance art is not acting. It is not dancing, nor is it reality; however, all of these ideas can be involved in a performance.
Performance art is more about a time and a place, than a tangible thing. A performance is changed as its surroundings and circumstances are changed. Performance art does not strive to be one thing in particular. There is no 'performance art-ness' in a phenomenological sense, as there is 'chair-ness' (the qualities that makes an object a chair, and not something else -- four legs, a horizontal seat and a vertical back.) Perhaps the difficulty lies in the placing of parameters. Maybe I do not know what performance art is not -- but I do -- or at least I thought I did. |
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LeithMuseum
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