what the heck is a performance art score?
Good question. Glad you asked. A performance art score is a set of instructions for creating a performance art piece. Aisha grew up surrounded by musicians, so hers are often similar to jazz compositions. Just like a musician must share their skills and creativity to re-interpret a Miles Davis composition ( or a Cecilia Smith one) , each person that performs an Aisha Cousins score is required to share their creativity, talent, and ideas about beauty. Each performance is unique and tells you just as much about the performer(s) as it does about the artist that wrote the score.
That said, performance art pieces come in an ever growing number of formats. In the 60′s people called them “happenings” In the 80′s people called them “live art.” Recently, they have been used as part of advertising campaigns such as the truth.com ads. If you would like to learn more about other performance artists, Performa‘s website is a great place to start. They put together a world famous exhibition of performance art every other year and have an archive of performance artists that you can search.
