Re: boring PERFORMANCE ART...

[Daryl <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

It's funny, I could replace "performance art" with "rock music", and 
"dancers"
with "rockers" in this statement and stand behind it for myself (and I've 
been a
primarily rock player for 15 years, in the midst of recording a *last* rock
record)...except for the part of it not being a valid form of art.   I 
think as
an artist you have to let other people express themselves how they see 
fit, and
it's fine to call the product good or bad based on its individual merits, 
but
there's nothing inherently wrong with any medium or practice.  An awful 
lot of
art nowadays IS pretentious, self-serving, greedy and hollow, but maybe 
that's
always been the case.  You have to weed through shit to get to the gold, 
but
when you find it, it's all worthwhile.

I say this because I think it's a shame to shut off the chance to find 
something
inspiring just because it has a particular label attached to it.

Daryl Shawn
highhorse@mhorse.com


> it's just that from a philosophical point of view, i don't cotten to the
> ideals and motivations that drive performance art...from everything i've
> seen and read, it doesn't come across as quite as valid a form of 
>"art"...to
> be frank, i think most performance art is just plain old average 
>bullshit.
>
> my ex-girlfriend was a modern dancer, so i've had my fill of the pretense
> (and lack of what i consider to be true talent and originality) that
> accompanies the dancers that i was around.