Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium.