What I love about the debate over re-performance is exactly what Joan Jonas says is is wrong with it. The circumstances of the original performance can't be reproduced; the re-enacted performance just isn't the same. So the person or institution who buys a performance doesn't get the real thing. The real performance gets away! Its an excellent prank, I think, on a deserving victim. Real experience can't be commodified, the specifics of place and time can't either. Good for them! No where is this more obvious than in the re-staging of "Imponderabilia."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/arts/design/14performance.html?pagewanted=2
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