Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.

- Peggy Phelan

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of represen…

- Peggy Phelan

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university'…

- Peggy Phelan