A collection of quotes and paraphrased statements from Trashing Performance's public programme last week which regrettably may hold less meaning here as they are out of context, but perhaps they will remind me and the other participants/audience members about what we experienced:
Be Cheesy! ... Hollow and synthetic fruit come hither!
-Owen Parry
Bin There, Done That
- P A Skantze
In response to the name 'trash performance' I'd like to coin the term 'Light Art'.
-Scottee
"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton
- Lois Weaver
... feeling world has no patience for your complexity
Sometimes crisis doesn't feel like crisis.
Without fantasy, how can you imagine a rich relation to the social?
- Lauren Berlant
I am one of those melodramatic women that make others shut off emotionally.
- Jennifer Doyle
"I've got a confession to make: Middle-class values make me sick" - Jo Spence
- Lisa Blackman and Bird la Bird
I am my own worst nightmare and I'm living the dream.
- David Hoyle
"...what we want to get rid of tells us who we are[...]but what we want to get rid of also makes us who we are" - Gay Hawkins
- Katerina Paramana
Spectacle should not be exclusive to Kylie Monogue.
cultivating your brand as an artist = repeat yourself
-Neil Bartlett
I'd like to take the feeling I have when I'm masturbating and put it on display.
I'm romantic about perverse things in a teenage girl sort of way.
Good art is made by people who are motivated by pleasure.
- Bruce Benderson
I really feel uncomfortable having a voice most of the time.
- Bean
The commercial sector will always look to radical work because they want to sell more stuff.
-Keith Khan
When the going gets tough, the mainstream fucks off.
- Lois Keidan
Gert Wilder's said "Art is just a Leftist hobby"
- Oreet Ashery
I suffer from A.D.D.D. (Attention Deficit Drag Disorder).
If you give a drag queen a piece of fabric, chances are she'll twirl.
- Joe E Jeffreys
Dive into the forbidden!
Life has me by the balls, performance lets me get back at life.
- Rocio Bolivar (La Congelada de Uva)
You know nothing if you don't know pleasure is the pleasure of the other.
art = therapy
the present pathology = a problem of respiration; the sickening perception of the other's breath
conspiration = ability to breathe together / reactivation of the collective breath
I am not a judge, I am a doctor; I want to heal, not to judge.
When people are suffering they are never guilty.
- Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
For me performance is the best political tool.
Everyone is not an artist.
A new language is needed because political art and protest are inefficient.
Is it art? I don't even care anymore; I'm the happiest I've ever been.
- Tania Bruguera
Art, man it's fucking long... of course we like art, but we like a little of it.
People without education want comfort and simplicity; they don't want to see what's funded by the Arts Council.
It is my long term passion to reach those ordinary people.
- Simon Casson
Artists are part of the economic structure of power no matter how unsuccessfully.
- Common Culture
We are all in transition.
- Ingo Cando