These Are My Principles... Premiere November 2016

These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others* 
is a per­for­mance pro­ject about prin­ci­ples, what they mean in a world of com­pro­mise, how be­fore every­thing was some­how much clearer. Why did some­thing you once be­lieved in so strongly and that seemed so im­por­tant to you, some­thing that you and oth­ers found so in­spir­ing... cease to have the same im­por­tance. Why, when it seemed so clear as to which side you were on, do peo­ple find it so dif­fi­cult to say what they are ac­tu­ally for or against. Where has all this com­pro­mise brought us? Has con­sen­sus some­how cor­rupted the idea of prin­ci­ple? Are there still lines we don’t cross? Does money change every­thing? Can you do some­thing good in­side of some­thing that you think is ul­ti­mately bad? Can you still make principled choices? 
*(Groucho Marx)