Q’s About Topic

Is pain a form of art?
If pain is the medium, can the audience meaningfully engage with the piece as a spectator alone?
Is it possible for the audience to experience the artists pain through mechanisms such as empathy?
How far should the body be pushed in the name of art?
Who should draw the line of what is too far?
Are performance artists who engage in extreme body mods/live pain performance pushing/crossing ethical boundaries between audience and artist? or legal boundaries?
Do props, such as a model of the arm with the ear growing out of it used as a table, add to a performance piece?
What compels an artist to subject themselves to pain?
Is it possible to separate the body and mind during performance?
Is Sterlac a conceptual artist?

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