(FJM) How do you define your art, specifically the rent-a-negro.com web site. i define my art as conceptual- interested in ideas, experience. i engage any medium necessary to explore those ideas or experience. one of the things about that web site is nothing presented is fictitious. every quote on the site was said to me in some form. every service is something i've been asked to perform. in this way, i'm not trying as many suspect to ?create? a political dialogue about race, rather reflect our society back to itself in a kind of mirror. that said, i choose a specific way to approach race that would evoke a visceral reaction, though i tried not to anticipate what that reaction was. i consider this a web-art-performance because the audience response (as in my race-tag piece) becomes a live and dynamic part of the work. it seems anything that addresses race is automatically categorized as political. this has been an issue in the art world for years. personally i believe that all art is activist art. even the most boring still-life can change our perspective on things, which i think is the primary gift art offers.

Often times I wonder why
There's love and hate, theres live or die.
When sickness comes I must decide:
When feelings go, theres suicide.