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<\/a><\/p>\nBBF: Do you think different cultures could influence performance in different ways? If so, how performance art can contribute to changing the world for the better?<\/p>\n
Preema: I think so, but it depends on the artist. Cultural identity shapes the subject matter and the context of art, influencing artists to create works that reflect the experiences, beliefs and traditions of their community. This definitely influences performance art as well. The idea of the performance can be personal to political, reflecting the social, cultural and even historical context.
\nArtists can also perform culture through their performances.<\/p>\n
Art has no liabilities. It should be free. Performance art should hugely change the context of the imagination of art. Live art means a reality; there is no fake in it. If any art could directly impact society, it is performance art that would bring betterment to the world.<\/p>\n
BBF: What was your approach towards the festival through your performance?<\/p>\n
I attempted three impromptu performances titled \u201cBreathe I\u201d, and \u201cBreathe II\u201d at Union Square. And the third one was performing the sound piece at the Grace Exhibition space in Manhattan, which was an experimental action and improvisation with classical music, text and sound.<\/p>\n
Breath II was a collaborative performance with a local vocal band that used to perform every evening at the Union Square Garden. As I said before, I was warming up for my major performance, which took place at the main square and on the 15th evening, the durational action called \u201cCaution with Love\u201d, was an hour-long performance that was an immersive experience that included engaging audience, dialogues, repetitive actions and the vibrant main patio of the union square.<\/p>\n
BBF: How is performance art different and relevant to today\u2019s global culture and beliefs compared with traditional media of art and expression?<\/p>\n Preema: As performance art tends to lean conceptual, performance artists seek to create art from unexpected actions. Although performance artists might reprise and adapt other works, the site of the performance is usually the artist’s own body in relation to the space it inhabits. Performance art is interactive and fluid. This is the only form of art that directly engages the audience and turns them into active participants. The audience makes the senses and constructs its meaning. This form of art is not only interpersonal but also educational on a very deeper level.<\/p>\n BBF: Do you follow any strategy while creating a performance art piece? Preema: I believe \u201cIn the name of art one can do and say almost anything and everything.\u201d At times I chose not to follow any strategy just by responding to my calling of gestures, movements, and acts \u2013 which became the most important elements. Sometimes I planned the action. At times, the actions or reactions were fluid. There is a thin line in between. The challenge is how do I melt into that invisible line of unspoken decisions I make while doing any performance piece. It took me a long time to understand that \u201cless is more\u201d. Therefore, I have to have a solid plan to execute to handle my act, involvements and use of objects or moments. So the simple technique I use to be precise and be on point to my vision of what I want to achieve. The abstraction should be there but that cannot be a destruction. The techniques are always improvisational and I learn more by doing. It\u2019s like experimenting all the time to create new content that might be relevant in the realm of practicing performance art.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWhat techniques do you use, and how do you create the expressional nuances while developing a performance?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n