Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling "talking performance" that documents the production of art in an important and often misunderstood community. Among the more than 100 artists Montano interviewed from 1979 to 1989 were John Cage, Suzanne Lacy, Faith Ringgold, Dick Higgins, Annie Sprinkle, Allan Kaprow, Meredith Monk, Eric Bogosian, Adrian Piper, Karen Finley, and Kim Jones. Her discussions with them focused on the relationship between art and life, history and memory, the individual and society and the potential for individual and social change. The interviews highlight complex issues in performance art, including the role of identity in performance audience relationships and art as an exploration of everyday conventions rather than a demonstration of virtuosity.
- ISBN10 0520210212
- ISBN13 9780520210219
- Publish Date 25 January 2001 (first published 26 December 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 November 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 553
- Language English