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Joshua Sofaer
Roddy Lumsden talks to artist Joshua Sofaer about the differences between performance and live art, audiences, and finding funding.
There are probably only two people in the world named Joshua Sofaer. One lives in America, a messianic missionary for Jews for Jesus. The other is a London-based artist who proselytises for the cause of 'live art'. Not surprisingly the two, though very different, are distant relations.
The two men met recently in New York and interviewed each other, sparked by the artist's increasing interest in autography, the discipline of writing about and around the past and future self, without the reliance on linearity and recorded history which can make autobiography a dubious practice.
As far as biography goes, Sofaer is concise with the facts - he is 30, was born in Cambridge, grew up in Edinburgh then studied drama and english at Bristol University. He decided against an acting career and took a Fine Art MA at Central St Martin's. He is now doing a PhD in Performance Writing, which takes in aspects of philosophy, sociology and cultural studies.
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