InvestandSurf

This performance is captivating everyone’s heart, and it’s because we yearn for art, for meaning, for beauty We don’t want to be mindlessly entertained anymore, made to consume what they think we want to watch We don’t want to be fed whatever executives think will hold our attention. We don’t want to be studied, predicted, and sold back to ourselves. So much of what we see now isn’t art. It’s market research. It’s built around the viewer, what we’ll click, what will spike engagement. But when art is shaped around the audience, rather than the heart of the artist, it loses its soul. Art only becomes meaningful when it stops asking what the viewer wants and starts expressing what the artist must say. This performance is touching our hearts because for the first time in a long time we have seen art, and art that comes from the heart of an artist, one that must perform for the sake of beauty, for the sake of love, not for the viewer, and that is why we all finally feel something