Peggy Phelan Quotes & Sayings

Life, like the trance we call Love, might begin with a look, a glance, an exchange between eyes — Peggy Phelan

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance. — Peggy Phelan

Performance's being becomes itself through disappearance. — Peggy Phelan

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance. — Peggy Phelan