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In this piece from Artforum’s March 1983 issue that is itself deserving of classic status, Thomas McEvilley locates the origins of performance art in ancient Greece—that is, the disruptive lived philosophy of Diogenes of Sinope. This month, as we pay homage to Pope.L—whose ingenious performative actions were deeply rooted in philosophical inquisition—we revisit McEvilley’s piece for its idiosyncratic take on a medium whose art-historical origins are perhaps not as recent as we conventionally take them to be. —The editors