In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That’s a completely different thing.
Being an artist is not easy – I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It’s a huge sacrifice.
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political – everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn’t, then forget it.
Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We’re looking at six or seven problems constantly. We’re living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn’t exist in the present here and now.
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, ‘I’m your mirror; if I can…
Because of technology, we don’t develop telepathy. We don’t use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
It’s very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something – like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child – and if you don’t follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
