"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'
Peggy Phelan, 1993, 'Unmarked, The politics of performance'
