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Hello.
Can you hear me?
[yes]
So, Ah, I think it's all live art really.
The Metropolitan Police dragging a disabled journalist out of his wheelchair at the London student protest was live art.
The BBC journalist who tried to explain this behaviour was also live art.
The popular revolutions that are now sweeping the Arab world are live art at its most beautiful best.
I was lately commissioned to work with a group of young people in East London,
and nearly every single one of them wanted to work about the student protests.
They were absolutely fascinated by the police raids in the middle of the night, by Camilla's face, by the obsession of,
er, about, the obsession of the fire extinguisher, with the fire extinguisher, the millions and millions of CCTV footage.
I tried convincing them, though, that it's very good that live art is inspired by protest,
but maybe now we should make protest be inspired by live art.
Luckily some heroes like the group Anonymous are doing that.
Anonymous are hacktivists, they wear the Guy Fawkes mask, they have a performative persona, they shift cultures, they challenge governments,
they support the Wikileaks, they challenge religion, media, society, they constantly reinvent themselves, and they have no hierarchy,
and I think this is definitely live art.
[applause]