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The recognition that our lives are structured according to repeated and socially sanctioned modes of behavior raises the possibility that all human activity could potentially be considered as 'performance,' or at least all activity carried out with a consciousness of itself.
The difference between doing and performing, according to this way of thinking, would seem to be not in the frame of theatre versus real life but in an attitude- we may do actions unthinkingly, but when we think about them, this introduces a consciousness that gives them the quality of performance...a quality of performance not involved with the display of skills, but rather with a certain distance between the 'self' and behavior.
- Marvin Carlson, What is Performance?
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Performance is always performance for someone, some audience that recognizes and validates it as performance, even when, as is occasionally the case, that audience is the self.
- Marvin Carlson, What Is Performance?