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In this clip "All About Performance Art," I'm going to talk about the five senses. In
creating your performance art piece, keep in mind the five senses, and how you can best
use them to communicate your concept. What are the five senses? Sight--visualness. Performance
art comes from the visual tradition, so make your piece visual, whether it's in your costume,
or in the sets, or painting, or you're spontaneously painting as you're talking and creating and
moving around the stage, make it visual. Performance art is always very visual. What else? There's
touch. Is there a way that you can involve your audience interactively and have them
touch something, have something textural at their seats, or they have to walk into a room
and walk through sheer softness, or maybe kind of spiky nails that they have to avoid,
or sandpaper, that they have to sit on sandpaper? How can you involve touch and really let them
feel? What else? Smell. How can you fill the room with a scent that further communicates
your concept? What else? Sound. Not just music, but sound. Loud noise or quiet creeping sounds.
Really use sound to further communicate your concept. What else? Mmm, pepper. Taste. Is
there a way that you can use taste? Are you eating on stage? Are you making your audience
taste things? Do you go around and have them taste things? Use the senses. It will make
your performance art piece have much more impact.