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Re: boring PERFORMANCE ART...
I do think that performance art can be found, expressed and adapted from almost any aspect of life/living ( technologies too ) & can & should be expressed w/in infinite functions, forms or structure-deconstruction(s) that you can both imagine/re-imagine.
& also, perf. art can be ignored, "boring", and also compelling to various degrees that for various reasons and accordingly so, will appeal to various audiences.
However, performance art just as any music/art does not have to be either "good" or "bad", IMHO.
Rather, perf. art just needs a voice & a chance to be experienced ( just like any music or art does ) and someone who is willing to bring that "voice", to a forefront as the right audience will and often does eventually appear at some point.
But Perf. Art in particular IMHO has to be executed with a considerable amount of fearlessness and less trepidation that u can get usually get away with having while being a performer in other artforms.
& I also think ya gotta be just a little bit crazy/crazier than most others who are considered crazy in some ways to be an effective performance artist.
Plus as a perf. artist, ya definitely have gotta have a thicker skin than most other types of creative personalities, but again, in the context of being a perf. artist, it needs to be taken to an extreme of sorts especially in terms of your resilliency and consistency of intentions and discipline and focus/ambition.
But w/ the "tag" perf. art also comes the rejection or confusion and endless reactions/responses ( if you 1st find any audience to begin with seguewaying into where even having the "right" audience, w/ performance art you never IMHO are bringing everybody along with you in with the most ideal circumstances ) from most people in general which are almost invariably stronger when you do perf. art than any other performance medium.
& on a related tangent feeding into this thread, I do kinda find it alarming that many folks here tend to kinda empahasize & need to have the feeling or impression of something ( art music perf art, etc ) pushing an "envelope"... or worse yet, using that expression "breaking new ground", in order for something to be deemed of interest &/or valid here regardless to the medium.
That "breaking new ground", thinking is IMHO a prison for sure built of steely self consciouness and a delusion.
Nothing is ever new and nothing in the universe breaks "new ground"...& nothing marks time better & really never goes anywhere in the end faster than the intention of "breaking new ground".
& IMHO there is boring perf. art just as much as there are boring audiences.
Often times I really have a hard time when distinguishing who is more boring in terms of "who's callin who" boring ... but all performance artists have a speacial place in my heart :)
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