#performance art

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#became #called #film #i #intrigued

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#audience #available #conventional #due #electronic

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#between #difference #good #mere #performance

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on. ↗

— James Marsters

#art #back #connected #either #fourth

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. ↗

— Liz Phair

#comes #i #interviewing #just #performance

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#art school #comedy #doing #fine #fine art

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#art #been #different #different level #level

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#artist #away #bizarre #break #get

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#back #calling #doing #far #just