Performance art of the 70s was provocative and radical. Since then it has become recognized as a fundable, collectible commodity. How does the insertion of the museum into the equation affect the creation, experience and preservation of performance? Art historian and critic RoseLee Goldberg moderates a panel of artist Marina Abramovic, Cuban-born artist Tania Bruguera, philosopher, critic and curator Klaus Ottman, and curator Debra Singer, now Executive Director of The Kitchen. Among many highlights, Ottmann's extraordinary account of the life, death and work of James Lee Byars.

The panel was sponsored by Performa, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization founded to commission and present new performance work in the visual arts. Not For Sale is presented in conjunction with New York University's Dept. of Art and Art Professions. Recorded 18 November 2004.