ok,ok,ok.....re eric s post....i want to write about limitations in different art forms and the importance of variety in medium when expressing something ....also, the agenda of the artist.  i really like your focus on the breaking down of societal habits, etc and i like your method of doing so, performance art.  i think we are in the age of diversified art and that art as the white box with paintings in it is losing its dominance.  i think it's important to hang on to the many methods of expressing something though, painting included, because there are so many ideas....each one requires a particular delivery and yours seems best expressed in performance.  you want to bring social patterns, the human experience, and honest interaction to attention, that's awesome....doing so will involve direct human relationships, on a bus wherever.  personally, i am edging into a more activist sort of art and i struggled with a recent reading on painter Agnes Martin.  i was working on a commentary 'painting' about pharmaceuticals, the benefits, the downsides, the individual, the corporation, etc.....and Martin's work (pictured above) seemed self-indulgent, meditative on a personal level, isolated, without context, safe, idle, what have you....i think i devalued her work (at that time) because it wasn't working towards the social awareness and change (?) i was.  as artists, we all have different agendas or intentions even if we're not conscious of it, and that's one of the things i think is most empowering about art.  you can make that choice.  you can let your art just flow from you or you can make it a reaction to what you see as the purpose of art at a certain time....these modes are often in flux.  a prof helped me realize the value of Martin's objectives in relation to my own; 'see her work as a beacon from which you diverge;' her work influenced the conscious purpose i put into mine, it helped me clarify my intent...to say nothing of how well it expresses her idea.  point is, some ideas look their best in 3d form, others in performance.  each artistic delivery has its own set of limitations.  -ker