A performance has its afterlife, where memory makes the act interact with other phenomena in the world. Remembering is like putting the pieces in a puzzle together. But there is a great difference. The performance act remembered will result in many different world views. In fact, it seems to me that this feature is essential to performance art.
In my memory then, the act of Cecilia Germain as a young spruce walking around in the botanical garden of Uppsala, from now on, will be connected to the visit in Paris by Kerstin Ekman in the fifties. The well known author, and withdrawn member of the Swedish Academy , commented in Swedish television on her alienism in the metropolis. - "I felt like a spruce on Place de la Concorde", she said, and the comment made me see Wild Seed in the light of a long since ongoing struggle for a language of female experience in Art.
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