James Franco, of Freaks and Geeks, Spider Man franchise and Milk, is going to be on 23 episodes of General Hospital...ask me if I care. Enough to post about it? Initially no, but as originally reported Franco, is doing this as performance art. Say what???
"...Most performance pieces before the 1970s were not well recorded. All that remains of some works are scraps of various media. This wasn't simply a result of oversight. Chris Burden never intended his early pieces to be filmed because he was concerned that the films would be seen as the work rather than as a record of the work. He was more interested in completing the act than getting the greatest number of people to see it. He worried that people would regard the film as the full experience when anyone who has watched a stage play on film knows, it is never the same as seeing it live...."
If at all interested, please read his entire op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal where he does not defend his decision but rather intelligently discusses the history of performance art in relation to his motives. I can respect that.
[via Hollywood Reporter]
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