Performance art failures could read as successful participatory theater.

Evidence

By Rothfuss’s account, Moorman did not so much float over the parade as bob uncertainly in its midst, often using her feet to relaunch. Defending Moorman here as she had in her version of the DIAS event, Jill Johnston wrote that the entire crowd seemed to be assisting the cellist, who once aloft blew kisses to the cheering artists below. It was “Charlotte being superbly and supremely ridiculous.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1279

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A live act that visibly falls apart can be the winning act — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 22; Community theatre transforms isolated audiences into creators of original work — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1829