we are not professionals

To be done with the judgement of DOG

Part one
SCRATCH N SNIFF
The history of performance/performance art and all other possible mutations of this word (structure) are actually non-existent as far as the reality/history of our own KULTUR is concerned. And this is because there is no history that has had it’s own autonomous development. There have been no diversions. There have been no mutations. There has been no constructive/destructive plagiarism. The home-grown artist as a young dog has been that of sniffing the shit of others on the pavement and then shitting themselves on our streets. Some would call this the copy paste method of working which does have a heritage in our KULTUR.

Part 2
WE ARE ALL EXOTIC CREATURES or EGO STIP TEASE A GO-GO
That a thing is done live and that this thing is self-referential does not make it art (or non-art). It usually makes it what it is and what it is, is what it started as: the insatiable need for someone (or more) to project their ego and to be applauded for the depth (singularity) of their character (and all that is composed of).


Part3
JUST IN CASE YOU DON’T READ OBITUARIES
Performance is dead. It has been for a while. It is only alive in our own KULTUR. There are obvious reasons for this, some have been mentioned above. Of course performance has been replaced with other codes and forms-perhaps we will see these new forms after 5 years when they are as dead as performance is now. Because I don’t feel like writing anymore about corpses, I will summarize:
Do we really need a history lesson on performance or do we want to deal with new emerging structures?
Do we want to be treated as the semi-literate who are in need of didactic force feeding or do we want to throw and purge new ideas?

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