quote: Peggy Phelan

"Performance’s only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, 

recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of 

representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something 

other than performance. To the degree that performance attempts to 

enter the economy of reproduction it betrays and lessens the promise of 

its own ontology. Performance’s being, like the ontology of subjectivity 

proposed here, becomes itself through disappearance. "

7. The ontology of performance: representation without reproduction. p.146
 Peggy Phelan, 1993, 'Unmarked, The politics of performance'