ehsan gill

I am drawn to performance art for the furious way in which it assimilates everyday practices of living into a reflexive mode. And my problems of purpose and intention are subsumed, whilst I play at living in the flesh of the world. 

-Eugene Ionesco

I have never quite succeeded in getting used to existence, whether it be the existence of the world or of other people, or above all of myself. Sometimes it seems to me that the forms of life are suddenly emptied of their contents, reality is unreal, words are nothing but sounds bereft of sense, these houses and this sky are no longer anything but facades concealing nothing, people appear to be moving automatically and without reason; everything seems to melt into thin air, everything is threatened -- myself included -- by a silent and imminent collapse into I know not what abyss, where there is no more night or day. What magic power still holds it all together? And what does it mean...? And yet here I am...

 -Richard Schechner

not everything is performance but many things can be looked at as performance