But in the seventies and the early eighties, the calling of this kind of art became the career of art. The passionate vulnerability that creates magic was replaced by a cool and clever intellectualism. We artists got seduced by high tech. We got seduced by the modern media, by the quest for large audiences. I think performance is being ruined by trying to package it as entertainment, as off-beat cabaret.
Some performance is entertaining.
Some performance is cabaret. That is great. But when you try to package performance into a neat cabaret format, as I think is the trend, to make performance acceptable and profitable, it becomes a hip form of nightclub watching or groovy T.V. watching. If you limit performance in time and space for acceptability, it stops being performance. I like doing cabaret and video.