reading notes for Chapter 1

1,LIVENESS
You can get the sence of performance by photographes or videos,but you can not have the fully experience,as the life energy is missing, missing something that you establish with the public, and any kind of media can not catch it. so, you have to there. That's the main difference between performance and film, TV and so forth.

2,CRITICAL TOOL IN THIS ERA
Performance is never die as a kind of art, even time is crisis. Somehow performance is appear, performanting means public take the active role in view of the pieces, not just a observer, but also actor to be in the pieces. But there are so many roles, maybe museum, maybe gallery, how interact with this possible and imposible, so the really perfomative work doesnt really work, because the public don't how to deal with that.

3,AN EPISODE OF SEX AND THE CITY
Sex, as a part of nature, also the absolutely necessary in city,is always the timeless and omnipotent subject.

5,EXPANDING IN SPACE
Flexible, do it as flexible as you can.

6,EPHEMERAL NATURE AND ENDLESS POWER
In some situation, we can't say the exactly meaning that delivered by the work of art, but we really being touched and being pushed at that time. Body language is more powerful than anything come out from your mouth, and the body (nature) could exist much long time than the language by the word of mouth, that's the power of nature, not just be concerned by the surrealism.