Collaboration in Performance Art

Video Transcript

"In this clip "All About Performance Art", I'm going to talk about the issue of to collaborate or not to collaborate. Do you want to do this completely on your own and by yourself? Or do you want to collaborate? Do you want an outside eye? Do you want a director? Again, a completely personal decision, Performance Art is a wild, outrageous, artistic discipline, and you can do whatever you want. Now the benefits of collaborating with somebody is that, they can tell you if you're effective in communicating your concept. Does this person get it? You know, your director. Does your director get it? Is it clear? Director can help you come up with wonderful, great, new ideas that you don't even think of. I mean, it can be scary to perform in front of a whole bunch of people when you haven't even performed in front of anyone else or had any help or direction. It can also be nice to be part of a team so that when you're out there performing, and if you got a bad reaction at some point you think, "Well it's not all on me, it's my director's fault too". No, I mean, not that you want to blame it on your director, but the point is that you're doing it with someone and you can support each other and say, "Well, they didn't understand that part. Maybe we can change it, it help in this way". So, hey, it's a personal decision once again. Benefits of collaborating is you get that outside eye. Benefits of not collaborating, well, depends on, if you're that kind of artist, that works that way, then that works out too."