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Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.

Peggy Phelan
Doe, Life Is, Circulation
Peggy Phelan (1993). “Unmarked: The Politics of Performance”, p.146, Psychology Press

Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.

Peggy Phelan
Performances, Disappearance
"Unmarked: The Politics of Performance". Book by Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts/Professor of English Peggy Phelan, Peggy Phelan, 1993.

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.

Peggy Phelan
Witty, Art, Assessment

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