"Loss of personal identity[...] refusal to allow the sense of reality to invade and control the sphere of emotions [...] a romantic rebelion against dependence upon both people and things[...]". 

"Performance has been considered as a way of bringing to life the many formal and conceptual ideas on which the making of arts is based[...] It was in performance that they tested their ideas, only later expressing them in objects. No other artistic forma has such a boundless manifiesto[...]"