"'To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake: there is a black box, you pay for a ticket, and you sit in the dark and see somebody playing somebody else's life. The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real."
I have no idea who this woman is and I think performance art is largely worthless, but I love the headline over at ArtsJournal and, I should add, the quotation. Sometimes provocateurs can be quite refreshing. Sometimes, alas, a bore.
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