(Ms. Sagemiller is an inviting object herself, though she sometimes seems a bit unsure of her delivery; this misstep is where Mr. Parigi's direction seems a little underwhelming).
Swift, thinking the conversation was aimed at her, tried to stand up for herself, even inviting Minaj on stage with her should she win.
At FORM, Meade challenged herself by inviting the unexpected.
By comparing your daughter to others, you are inviting her to always compare herself to everyone who crosses her path.
And the supposedly virginal Salome taunts the prophet by pleasuring herself before him and inviting him to lick her finger.
Take the terrific scene early on when V. I. goes to the trendy Club Gouge, where she catches the act of a performance artist who calls herself the Body Artist, inviting the audience to paint what they will on her naked flesh.
For a more bizarre and superficial take on the artistic process, there is "Watch Me Work," a stunt by the justly celebrated playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who turns herself into performance art, inviting audiences to watch at no charge as she writes at a wooden table in the Public Theater lobby.
