"After food I explored other themes: sex, money and fame, ritual and death- all things I wanted to know more about. I realized that performance artists were addressing these topics, so I talked to them, sometimes intermittently, sometimes intensely, for the next ten years.
After each artist chose one of the four topics (sex, food, money and fame, ritual and death), I asked him or her essentially the same question: How did you feel about (food, sex, money, fame, ritual, or death) as a child? It has always been my personal belief that the themes artists employ are born in childhood and that an artists' work explores, transforms, perpetuates, or makes the information from that time understandable and manageable via symbolic acts- art.
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from Performance Artists Talking in the 80s
Compiled by Linda M. Montano