Make Art or Die Trying

Chapter Four

Perform

YOUR LIFE IS PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE IS ART. YOU ARE ART.

Let’s think about performance and the idea that the way we perform something can be art. We will enter a magical space between art and life where the artist can challenge how we relate to the wider world around us. From playing soccer on stilts to following strangers around New York City, the world of performance is waiting for us to jump in.

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Life has a changeable, temporary, immaterial nature. The early pioneers of performance art wanted to make their work about exactly that. The big thing here was that artwork with an element of living ...