We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
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The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.
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.
As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.
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