Every interview is, to a greater or lesser extent, performance art depending upon the social context, the aims of the interviewer, or the expectations of the audience. I thought this interview was going to be a friendly exchange on how community based creativity could be a means for revolutionary social change, yet it turned into a surreal comedic performance exchange that the audience found hilariously funny. People were laughing out loud, and one person later informed me it was the funniest thing he had ever seen. Ask yourself, how can an interview and two-way dialogue about the revolutionary potential of art and creativity become the funniest thing someone has ever seen.
This active involvement and connection of the aduience in the dialogue and process of the event became far more open and active than had ever been thought possible by virtue of Joanne C's spontaneous and geniune behaviour, which acted as a radical intervention puncturing any unconscious artistic prentensions on either my part, or that of The Creativity Manifesto. It was a critical lesson in how a theory, system, plan or event can never fully anticipate, nor control the social process of creativity when people come together in an space of freedom.
