Hi Robert,
Oddly enough, I've been pondering similar questions of terminology
and recently sent an article to the BOS.
Anyway, I was looking at the issue from a slightly different
perspective, but I'll chuck in my tuppence-worth with regard to the artistic
folder:-
Any piece of art (music, origami and even painting or writing) that
has the potential to be recreated by others, would often be recreated by a
'performer', as you suggest. The problem with 'performer' for me is that
from the point of view of an observer, origami has (usually) no sense of
introduction, theme(s) and development leading to a resolution; i.e. there
is no performance, there is simply the final piece (painting and sculpture
often have the same issue). Generally, these works are developed in
private and presented complete.
I think there would be some difficulty with finding a 'single word'
, but options to replace 'performer' could be 'interpreter' or even
're-creator'!
If you are happy to use some qualification, then 'Origami Composer'
or 'Origami Creator' or 'Origami Artist', all imply the creation of the
original piece but 'Origami Interpreter' or 'Folding Artist' only imply the
actual process of folding the model. At least, they do to me. But 'Origami
Interpreter' sounds a bit odd, and you'll notice that I haven't even
mentioned 're-creator' again.
In the article, I playfully suggested using 'origamika', meaning
'practitioner of origami' in the style of 'judoka' etc. but my intention was
to name someone who 'does' origami, not necessarily implying any artistic
level.
That hasn't really helped, has it? But it was fun to consider :-)
Dennis
