Culture, replete with ritual, symbols and practices, is a performance.
Culture provides the historical and mimetic links all of us as actors need to re-present familiar and disruptive tropes to our audiences – the outsider and insider, celebration and violence, comfort and catharsis. It is in this interplay between actor and audience that the ‘we’ of culture makes it performative storytelling with recognizable, if not new, cues embedded in the artwork. 更多
