Downtime; 'Fly' Fellowship; Show's Collaborative Nature Challenges the Perception of Performance Art

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The words "performance art" evoke images of off-kilter improvisation: a naked man streaking across a crowd wearing only a long-haired blue wig. Dancers dressed as robots dancing the Robot. Poets yelling out verses across a room.

Twists on conventional disciplines such as dance, theater and literature are staples of performance art, where the act - instead of the object - is considered the art form.

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Downtime; 'Fly' Fellowship; Show's Collaborative Nature Challenges the Perception of Performance Art

Mostly conceptual and arguably avant-garde, performance art has always been a crapshoot when trying to define it. What makes it different from a Cirque du Soleil show? Who is to say that Johnny Knoxville from "Jackass" isn't a performance artist?

This year's Performance Ar...

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