[-empyre-] performance anyone?

[valerie <valerie@mobilegaze.com>]

> > Adrian Miles wrote:
>
> i think this is slipping off topic but yes and no. i sometimes teach 
> students from the developing world in a first world nation and i 
> guess something i want them to know is that they have to accept 
> bandwidth as a positive creative restraint otherwise they simply 
> won't get their heads around work that is relevant to why they're 
> doing this in the first place (to make stuff for home).
>
> i guess i dont' see the terms as problematic in this sense, in much 
> the same way that i'd say a painter who today uses canvas needs to 
> somewhere think about this as a positive material constraint in 
> their practice, otherwise use something else, and if you're 
> nostalgic for frescos, go paint one :-) and yes it's still painting 
> but don't complain that you can't exhibit it in that gallery over 
> there.

I'm all for low-tech + high tech. I used to study acting before 
getting into the visual arts - and we would study all kinds of 
"ridiculous" techniques. We often questioned why we needed to know 
how to fence? Or speak in a particular accent? And one day I 
understood. As my instructor said. "If you can do it - then you can 
do it. But if you can't do it, you simply can do it." So, I'm still a 
firm advocate of more is more. Which bring me to another topic I 
wanted to throw out before Sylvie Parent arrives on monday...

I am curious as to what kinds of online performances are bring done 
presently. This is the other half of my persona - performance. I have 
a Website which I've been playing around w/ online personae called 
The Advice Bunny (http:/www.mobilegaze.com/advicebunny) An scoop on 
how performance is being presented online? Is anyone involved in 
this? I am not seeing much performance on the Web although 
performance seems to be exploding (at least in Canada) as THE artform 
of the early 21st century. Which seems curious - because performance 
can be so essentialist. I'd appreciate any thoughts on the subject, 
if I can make this short detour in the conversation.

Valerie
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