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

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

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

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.

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

I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.

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.