performance-art

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

Art doesn__ give rise to anything in us that isn__ already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

Ii do not walk with alienation everywhere I go in the world. I have been to small taverns in rural Ohio, big city bars, San Francisco bath houses, and in all these have felt welcome and happy. But walking through that sunglassed throng, I felt like a Martian. I didn't hate the feeling - indeed, being a black woman in the academy, it wasn't new to me - but it was interesting. I kept wondering: where is the performance? When will the performance start? Is this the performance - me walking through this space without sunglasses with all these Nordic quasi-hipster white people in multi-colored, motorcycle cop sunglasses?

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.