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Extremely Successful Artist
Four things required for performance art:
The context of Time
The context of Space
The performer's body
and a relationship between performer and audience.
Most performance artists fail because they are only able to wrangle the first three elements into their concept.
The US media, and all of us on this board, have just handed her number four.
We're discussing her actions and thinking about what they mean in the context of 1, 2, and 3.
Thus, she is one of the most wildly successful performance artists of the 21st century.
Whether you like it or you hate it, you know she is and what her message is. To an artist, that's Nirvana.
Do any of you KNOW any artists? She'll be lauded for DECADES for this one...