Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Han Bing: Chinese Performance Art Engaging Life on the Margins

"My performance of walking the cabbage is conducted like a normal part of my regular life," comments Han Bing. "I want people to question the definition of 'normal practice,' and to reflect on how much of our daily lives are routines we've blindly absorbed. But we have choices about how to live. Performance art can cause us to stop and think about what we do, to ask ourselves how we should live. I don't believe that the mission of performance art is to supply answers to life's big questions, but it can certainly raise questions in public, provoking people to think."

(Via Notes from Somewhere Bizarre.)


"Walking the cabbage." Brilliant!

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