‘I Think It Is All Storytelling’: Taylor Mac On ‘Theatre’ Versus ‘Performance Art’

“In my experience, the art world has a disdain for theater. When I present my work to theater people, they call it performance art. When I present it to the art world, they call it theater. In reality, I know my work is a hybrid. … Then again, the art world has a strict sense of what performance art is, and they don’t like to think of it as close to theater. They view theater as conservative, regressive, unradical, and middlebrow. … As if Marina Abramović doesn’t use a script of some kind. As if her work doesn’t have a beginning, middle, and end.

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