People seem more interested in packaging it than in actually doing it.
Let's just say that if performance grew out of a wish to make art more present, more visceral in the '60s and '70s, that trend has decidedly reversed itself. Over the past decade, this art form definitely shifted toward entertainment or, at least, the proscenium and away from such anti-tainments as those described above. The last performances happen this Saturday, July 15. He's also re-presenting Dream Event from 1971. He spent 48 hours in bed at the gallery for that piece, fasting, sleeping, and recording his dreams.