Performance vs. performing

During the Q&A after Saturday’s Berkshire Film Festival screening of the documentary The Artist is Present, Marina Abramović clarified an important point about her planned institute in Hudson.

The center will focus, she explained, on all of the performing arts—including for instance music and dance—not just on the specific type of performance art for which she herself is known... The kicker being that she intends to focus on “durational” performances of six hours or more, from many disciplines.