Art is about paying attention.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
