Narrator statement with accompanying visual that is problematic:
At the start of the PBS Video Survey, the narrator states that performance art violates their fourth wall and traps the viewer in witnessing performance art in a gallery setting. As the video goes on, the narrator talks about performance art in a manner that makes performance art seem problematic in the sense that this form of art engulfs the spectator without their consent. Though performance art differs from that of typical mediums displayed in a gallery, it is a from of art that takes place on the same plane as the audience. Surrealist artist Antonin Artaud is responsible for the development of the theater of cruelty which proposes a direct communication between the spectator and the spectacle. The theatre of cruelty could be viewed as a form of performance art where it is unwarranted and the viewer is left with no option but to witness the art before them.
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