Today’s podcast is titled, “Vautier’s
Performance Art Legacy: Why Every
Artist Should Continue to Question their
Culture and Shock the World”. The
Parisian performance artist Ben Vautier
inspires the name. Of course, you may be
wondering what was so special about his
work, and to that, I’d say that it was his
innate curiosity and provocative artistic
direction that made him the forward
thinker he was. In 1964, Vautier sat down
in the middle of a street in Nice with a
placard on his lap. The placard read,
"Regardez-moi, cela suffit, je suis art."
["Look at me. That's all it takes; I'm art."]
So, was Vautier right? Can a person really
be their own art? Well, that’s what we are
here to find out today! So, let’s open up
our minds, delve deeper into the history
and impact of performance art and
question what makes a work of art, truly
art!