Performance

For performance, in my own practice I am concerned with the with the conceptual and technical possibilities of a means of expression, which underpins an attempt to deal with something repressed. This subsequently with all the narcissism and autobiographical details that surrounds it returns to the surface of an experience.
Exploring the temporality, contingency and instability my body, exploring the notion that identity within and beyond cultural boundaries appears to be ‘acted out,’ rather than being an inherent quality. Breaking down these boundaries between art and life, in proposing to erase the division between the everyday and the artistically produced, and more specifically between the artist and the viewer.  
For it is performance that critics such as Peggy Phelan, cognitively argues that for the authentic witnessing of a performance, and the cathartic physical experience for both the audience and the artist themself, appears to inevitably guarantee an authentic knowledge and inviolate interpretation of that experience.  Phelan critiques that experience is merely about the disappearance, rather than preservation in performance that retains and transform one to an authentic knowing.
Performance creates immediacy and unpredictability, being ephemeral and ideally spontaneous, with no repetition and no predicted ending, rather a place of experience.This place of experience and encounter of an artwork opens up dialogue, an utterance or a place of becoming.
We are forced to thought. A fundamental encounter that is not an object of recognition, or a representation of something already in language, rather an object of encounter. 
Our knowledge of meaning and our habitual modes of being and subjectivities are challenged and ruptured. For this encounter of rupture, a moment of affirmation occurs which obliges us to see the world differently.  Life becomes a history of these encounters, always necessarily occurring beyond representations. Art brings these two concise moments of rupture and affirmation together, breaking one world and creating another, bringing the possibility of something new.
It is important to remember than meaning is not fixed, rather it maintains ability/ minority to hold you in place rather than fixing you in place, supporting you rather than locking you down.