Just like the article ” Why Artistic Activism?” by Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert I believe that Art impacts society much deeper than speeches. When people talk in front of large groups they can just listen but it depends on the person who is delivering that speech and their tone. However this can sometimes be difficult because their is no transcript of speeches when its live talking and will have to wait for pre-recorded videos for transcripts/captions. Live speeches happens once and if recorded will have to wait for it to be uploaded. Art however (depending on which) is always available and can be looked at and even bought. Art can have multiple meaning and mean something different to everyone whereas speeches are seen at face value. However performative art only happens while its live sometimes it is recorded but the times that it isn’t and people are there to experience and intimate and much more impactful.

Someone who I believe has very impactful performative art is Marina Abramovic. All her performance pieces have a very deep meaning but also have multiple because it can be interpreted in different ways. However my one of my favorite performative arts she has done is called Balkan Baroque. In this performance, she sat amidst an enormous pile of bloody cow bones, washing them one by one while singing folk songs from her childhood. For four days she sat in the middle of the pile, scrubbing away at 1,500 fresh beef bones.  Her dress became increasingly stained by blood as she sang and weeped.This art is suppose to represent that when times of war you can always wash away the blood but never the shame that comes along with it. Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was violently disintegrated by brutal wars. The title of this piece serves as a response to the war ravaged country.