Time Based
"Performing the Moment" was about the documentation and significance of performance art done the first time and the reiterations afterwards. It discussed "the distance the viewer and the original work" in which the audience could be a part of the work or observe after the act through photographs and videos in a museum. Also, Olson raises the question of future reproductions of performance art because of old materials being banned and replacing it with newer technology.
As much as I'd love to agree with the idea that seeing the original is better than seeing a photograph of it, I don't think it is the best idea for performance art in the far future. How could one recreate a moment in time exactly if the conditions are not the same? Even if it was, would it end up the same as previous performance? Also, the argument presented in the end of the article makes it seem more likely that photographs and video would become the ultimate documentation of performances because the materials itself could be banned our out-dated in the future.
On a lighter note, here's a link to SCP, because their concept is an entertaining and important one.
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html
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