Field Station 5: Who Knows – and who cares – about performance mastery [?] 1

First, there is the question of value invested in the canons of twentieth-century art. This value is not set: there is always formal invention to he redeployed … [and] cultural capital to be reinvested. Simply to surrender this value is a great mistake, aesthetically and strategically. Second, there is the question of expertise … Hal Foster (1996: xii)