http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2007/09/14/performance_now_lunchtime_chat/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2007/09/14/performance_now_lunchtime_chat/#comment-704 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:58:17 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2007/09/14/performance_now_lunchtime_chat/#comment-704 i think this is a complete cop-out on her part.
there is a difference between “engaging” an audience and “entertaining” an audience. she aims to entertain as a way to skirt the more difficult task of having to engage them. the assumption that “the visual arts crowd” wants a “dead object they don’t have to respond to” is unfounded and cynical to the point of being hypocritical, given that she is participating in an (expensive) event that is mostly attended by people who are into many forms of visual art, not just performance. after all, this isn’t the theater, it isn’t a film festival…it is an art festival. i’m sure there are people who naively expect to be “entertained” by performative art, and i’m sure there are people that don’t think critically about visual art. but then why pander to that marginal segment of the art-going public? it is obvious from her uninspired piece this evening that she has lost her ambition to engage an audience; i showed up enthusiastically expecting to be engaged and left feeling like i had just sat through a long, drawn out one-liner with a bad punch line. if she’s lost the ambition to create relevant art and has no faith in art audiences, maybe the best she can hope for is that this IS a career ender.

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