I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
