Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance. — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science,… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share
Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share
“If representational visibility equals power, then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture.” — Peggy Phelan Copy Share
“Life, like the trance we call Love, might begin with a look, a glance, an exchange between eyes” — Peggy Phelan Copy Share
