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Intersection of Perfomance and Art and Performance Art

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Why pay more for a concert when you can enjoy crystal clear music in the comfort of your own home? Anyone who has ever been to a concert, mosh, or other appearance of a favorite artist will tell you the experience is everything. The concert is an entirely different product than the music recording; the musician truly becomes an artist since she works with visual as well as sound media. Such is the case with a brilliant piece by the brilliant Amanda Palmer. Watching this video, I hope you’ll notice it is not your average straight song variety. She uses Gaga’s Bad Romance in a satirical performance which comments on Gaga herself as well as performance art in general. The fact that the song is not hers only emphasizes the other elements of the show that she had to plan and create. The choreography, wardrobe, sequencing, and original spoken parts are all products of Palmer, and come together to create a unique experience which is entirely hers. In this way, live performances would operate just like books under a copyright.

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I just realized that not only are we on a blog, but we also have an English professor as a teacher, yet no one has gone meta. Prepare for that to change, as I start our slow descent into self-referential Hell.

…Nah. This post isn’t nearly enough to open the gates to the inferno.

Today, I did have a meta-moment (you can slap that prefix on anything!). As I was editing our Google doc for the portfolio 2 essay, I could not help but wonder who wrote it. Now, I know I literally typed the first page and a half, and my partner literally typed another page, but it still seemed odd. To be exact, I happened to be editing my partner’s section: she had written a page, but I did not like some of her phrases and words, so I replaced them with what I thought would better illustrate our point. But now that I had changed a few words in the middle of her writing, could she still call it hers? Could I really take credit for it, with my minimal contribution? I don’t think I want to call it both of ours, since each of our contributions were independent of each other and non-consensual. The bigger question for the class would be, who owns a collaborative piece of writing?