What is performance for me? I do this more than 20 years. I made a lot of performances.
It is a kind of style of life for me. Thinking about arts, especially visual
arts, performance is something like poetry in literature. You cannot imagine
literature without poetry, so you cannot imagine visual arts without performance.
That is a short story, short performance, short event - just like poetry in
the ladies toilet.
Paweł Kwa¶niewski
Bara, what is performance for you?
Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life! Life!
Life! Life! Life! Li-i-i-ife!
Yasunori Shiobara
It is the only way to say something of my female... to be a mathematician in
a men's world : and a kind of position to be against the static idea of art.
I want to form dynamical space around me, and I use mathematics, humour, and
whatever else to be important - to be a woman. So what is performance for me?
The only method, manner.
Irma Optimist
In performance we are putting at risk all our knowledge about our relations
and also about our communication; and maybe in this world the most suggestion
is communication. So performance puts in all knowledge and background of humanity
and its relations between the one individual with the others. So, probably,
we do something that puts these limits out, that blows up these limits, and
we go further to nonsense that has some part of the nonsense that is in life.
Valentin Torrens
Performance is to go around in the brain to find images and to make them in
a kind of performance. And afterwards try to see what they were saying about
the world, about me, and about interaction.
Elisabet Karlsson
When I do my performances, I never know how it's going to start, how it will
continue, or how it will end. This is perfectly normal : I see performance as
a direct interpersonal contact, I see it as a spontaneous act, and it knows
no premeditation. For me, performance is a world of no conventions, a natural,
real world in which you live for 15-20 minutes of your life, but it's a phenomenon
of freedom. To me, it is liberty.
Viktor Petrov
I do performance because it is direct, it is getting contact with people, with
the audience directly. I also sculpt and I also make work from found objects.
They say, when spectators came across with a piece of work being on the wall
or on the pedestal, they spend several seconds looking at this work. But in
performance it is direct the audience is standing before you, the people are
interested and they get involved, they connect more directly with the work.
Noel Molloy
English translation: Mark Bence