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It was quite a conundrum, being a writer chosen to work in a performance art festival. There is nothing very public about the act of writing - unless you count those people who hang out with laptops in coffee shops - which I don't. Writing usually occurs in private and publication occurs after intensive mediation. Of course, performance art also involves the private creation but its execution occurs in a public space with the body of the mediator present where as in book form the writer is absent.

I like the idea of turning writing into a performance piece. And the simplest way of turning it into performance is to use a public areana to write in. This is why I chose to the blog. I assume that the blog exists in a virtual space which is neither public nor private. My guess is that the volume of users creates a privacy within these public spaces. Like being alone in a crowd.