You Can Buy Performance Art

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Brian Feldman, Orlando's lone performance artist, in "Sleepwalk Part Two" at the Outsider Art Fair in 2010 at the soon to be sold frame shop.

According to the Financial Times, you can now buy performance art:
At what point did acquiring performance art switch from owning objects associated with the actions, such as videos and photographs, to possessing the “idea” behind the piece? Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal has evidently turned collecting criteria on their heads. He sells his performance art pieces by means of verbal transactions in the presence of a lawyer with no written contract. Instructions on how to re-enact his works are delivered literally by word-of-mouth, with collectors under strict orders never to photograph or video his “constructed situations”. Yet they sell in editions of four to six for $85,000 to $145,000 each, according to The Art Newspaper.
This might be good news for Brian Feldman, if he ever decides to sell.