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Performance art functions primarily to provoke, challenge, or create a genuine reality for the audience.
3 people · 3 episodes
True magic in performance art involves performing feats that are genuinely real rather than just slight of hand.
“I'd rather just jump into the box. Well, then they're like, well, you at least have to just disappear. I was like, but then that ruins the whole like, then it's not a real thing.”
Jay Shetty Podcast · Mar 2025 · 1 episode · 100K views on this topicPerformance art is a medium designed to elicit discomfort from the viewer in order to make a statement, impact, or lasting impression.
“more often than not performance art elicits a deep discomfort in the viewer and that's what it's supposed to do I feel like that's what a lot of pieces are aiming for to move people to make a statement make an impact to stay with the audience even long after the performance has ended”
OUTLORE with Eleanor Neale · Feb 2024 · 1 episode · 1.4M views on this topicThe speaker suggests that PETA's human skin campaign is not actually made of human skin and that wearing such items would serve as a provocation to prove that people will continue to wear leather rega
“isn't that it's not actually made of human skin it's made of like images of human skin and what would be dope if we started wearing them yeah that'd be fire that sounds fire but even though it looks kind of trash like if we start wearing them it proves that we're even like if if all it takes peta to”
Brilliant Idiots · Dec 2021 · 1 episode · 163K views on this topicPerformances require significant preparation, professional standards, and technical skill to be effective.
2 people · 2 episodes
Glenn Howerton believes that professional choreographed dance requires significant preparation time to look correct, noting that he struggled to maintain synchronization during rehearsals.
“it was a lot of like oh [ __ ] he's on his left foot we're supposed to be on our right foot you know like it was it was a lot of the like just small details that we were worried about because we wanted it to look really and also in a in a real performance in a movie or a stage performance you would ”
The Always Sunny Podcast · Aug 2022 · 1 episode · 768K views on this topicHis method for training actors involves adapting to their physical limitations while using Hollywood camera tricks to maintain the illusion of professional wrestling.
“you may not be able to do that move and that's okay yeah there's 100 ways to get from A to B let's figure out what's best for you and let's make that work and then I got a lot of Hollywood tricks as well”
Chris Van Vliet · Dec 2023 · 1 episode · 67K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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