So this is the right time to be active. For a performance art event that predicates its philosophy on inaction, it seems like a contradiction.
At a more reflexive level, inaction also plays a big part in performance art events. Marina Abramovic is a female performance artist whose ability to stir emotional responses through inaction has received acclaim in the international arts world. The liminal space that lies between the action and inaction of a performance gives rise to contentions and conflict.
In Buddhist philosophy, the idea of cause and effect could be used and read alongside the Daoist philosophy. Within the confines of life life and death and system of nature, there is a significant amount of freedom.
It is in this freedom that performance artist could explore to the maximum of their ability, testing the natural system. Performance artists use their bodies as the medium for artistic expression constantly pushing the limits of their bodies, not just physically but also its relationship with the world. He was charged in court under the Public Order Act. Palay was not the only performance artist who has been arrested.
In the history of Singapore performance art, there were a few examples. Rather art is inherently political, no matter what form it takes. Performance art focuses on the temporal, the relationship between time and space as well as the body. Space is also an important site for bodily experimentation. Like all other spaces in Singapore, are they merely a site where creative production takes place and not discourses?
