Do I really have time for this?
So new to this whole concept, really, but I feel I have something worthwhile to say.
....Doesn't everyone think they do?
Anyway, the basic concept behind Life As Performance Art is something I have been talking about with a friend and thinking about for quite some time - the idea that your life isn't necessarily limited to the form which it naturally takes. The little eddies into which it flows when the bottom is not regularly drudged, if you'll permit the metaphor. The idea that life, your life, can take the form you choose to give it, it can become a performance.
Not a performance in the sense of falseness, pretending to be something you're not.
Performance in the sense that every detail is thought through and sends a message (hopefully a coherent one), expresses something immaterial, something internal. A life of communicative expression, rather than just toil or getting by or making the best of it.
Altho' I suppose this is my ideal of making the best of it. Few of us are gifted with the resources to truly make our lives what we might like, from moment to moment. The concept here is more about making ourselves what we wish we were.
I am by no means this well-organised. By writing about (and hopefully propagating) this concept, I hope to further my own understanding and realisation of it. And to encourage others to view life as something to be made, rather than something just to get through.
Even tho' I firmly believe this is what we all do, every day, simply through self-consciousness. We need to define ourselves by something(s), to put something out there for others to react to. I mean to devote myself through this blog to exemplifying and exploring this.
