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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.