Today's the Day

finally a studio day to use as I please. No family for dinner, so the day's mine. But now it looks like my art quilting group may be coming here tomorrow evening for our monthly meeting. So once the studio work is done, I'll have to clean up. The lecture I went to yesterday was by a "performance artist". I've often heard the term, but never thought about it. What a fascinating woman! The concept takes the idea that art involves a dialogue between the artist and the viewer. In more traditional art this is a very passive dialogue where the artist puts out some sort of visual representation and the viewer sees it, ( or not)and interprets it in any way they choose. In performance art, the artist actually provides some sort of stimulus to the viewer, and then actively accepts the viewers response. This is my interpetation of the process. There was no information provided on the process, but rather she described some of her art and how she achieved it and how she interpreted the viewers responses. Very, very interesting. I had hemmmed and hawwwed about going but it was well worth the time.