As an artist, I was always hesitant about performance art. Through my creative media-making class tasked with facing our fears, I decided to do a performative piece. Burn Your History brings light to the manipulation and obliteration of certain histories. I walked along a canvas tarp over my skull with my feet soaked in red paint. As I get in the chair I pick up a book, put on some gloves, and set the book on fire. 

A great question came up with the fact that this was recorded. Does this make it video art or do the written instructions that can be performed by anyone considered the art? 
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