15/11/09

I can sense a "yes/no" answer here. I could definitely identify with the idea that I have always been a performance artist in some form or other but this is balanced with the importance of and essentially because of my making installations. In essence, this answers 'how did I get here?'. It was always through the actual making of my installation pieces that I was exploring my artistic ideas. Like Process Art, it was the formation of the art rather than the finished objet d'art itself, that was essentially the artwork. That process; occupying a physical space with my body manipulating a material over a period of time; that process was a performance. That process could be described as Performance Art.

You described me as a performance artist. If I were to ascribe to you that very same label, would I be wrongly pigeonholing you or accurately identifying your practice? Would you find that specific artistic characterisation (or any) to be restrictive or liberating?