Carolyn Lambert

I found Carolyn Lambert's presentation a few weeks ago to be interesting. What i noticed most about her lecture was the medium she has been working in . Well, perhaps medium is the wrong word, but that my point here. I am not very familiar with performance art or documentation. It intrigues me that we can catatgorize this as part of "studio art" courses. I would veiw this as something fit more for the perfomance or thater arts department. I don't think it's bad or wrong that Carolyn's work is being classified in to the studio arts academically. It just makes me think about how we feel the need to catagorize everything. I think that this diversity of art is one of the things i love most about being an artist. We have many outlets and directions our work can take. Someone in sudio art courses has the opportunity to incorporate everything from dance, video and music in to their work, what other areas of study have that much openness and opportunity?