An Artist Has To Look At The

I Am Pure Performance, And Robert Wilson Is Pure Theater.

Talking About Performance Is Such A Strange Thing Because It's So Immaterial. We Are Talking About Soft Matter. We Are Talking About Something That Is Invisible. You Can't See It. You Can't Touch It. You Just Can Feel It.

The Experience I Learned Was That … If You Leave Decision To The Public, You Can Be Killed… I Felt Really Violated: They Cut My Clothes, Stuck Rose Thorns In My Stomach, One Person Aimed The Gun At My Head, And Another Took It Away. It Created An Aggressive Atmosphere. After Exactly 6 Hours, As Planned, I Stood Up And Started Walking Toward The Public. Everyone Ran Away, Escaping An Actual Confrontation.

You Know The Movie "rashomon" From [takeshi] Kurosawa, When All The People In The Forest See Something Different? Each Performance Was Like That.

It's Very Important That Young Artists Push Boundaries, Because Sometimes You Have This Urge To Do Something - Like The Impulsive And Dangerous Urges I Had As A Child - And If You Don't Follow Through With It You Might Miss Out On A Developmental Experience.