Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through...

performing arts, a performance generally comprises an event in which a performer, or group of performers, present one or more works of art to an audience...

Poi is a performing art and also the name of the equipment used for its performance. As a skill toy, poi is an object or theatrical prop used for dexterity...

Voltaire, Zürich in 1916, many artists have experimented with extreme performance art as a critique of contemporary consumer culture. Some have used bodily...

Endurance art is a kind of performance art involving some form of hardship, such as pain, solitude or exhaustion. Performances that focus on the passage...

EXIT were a performance art group during the mid-1970s. EXIT members Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher later founded anarchist punk rock band Crass, adopting...

November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and...

Performance art in China has grown since the 1970s as a response to the very traditional nature of Chinese state-run art schools. It has become more popular...

Luminosity (1997) was a performance art installation by Serbian artist Marina Abramović at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Along with Insomnia and Dissolution...

747 is a 1973 performance art piece by American artist Chris Burden. The piece is one of a number of photographs of Burden's work that is in the collection...

the rise of such things as performance art, video art, and conceptual art. The idea was that if the artwork was a performance that would leave nothing behind...

According to scholar Virginia Mackenny, performance art is a great tool to mold and remold gender because performance art, in most instances, includes a direct...

circuit parties or rave dances in bright, colorful costumes are called performance art dancers. Most often, go-go dancers are typically women who perform...

Chiroptera was a collaborative performance art installation created by JR, Damien Jalet, and Thomas Bangalter. It was presented in front of the Place...

without requiring all the usual trappings and production of a full theatre performance. They thus influenced the form taken by later Victorian and Edwardian...

central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as...

annually. Israeli art's development, heavily influenced by 20th century European trends was heavily centered in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Major art museums operate...

living statue, musical performance, one man band, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketching and...

context of Conceptual Art during the 1970s, Body art may include performance art. Body art is likewise utilized for investigations of the body in an assortment...

creative ways, such as performance art. Performance art is a performance over time that combines any number of instruments, objects, and art within a predefined...

who received international recognition for his Polaroid art and collaborative performance art with longtime companion Marina Abramović. In the early 1970s...

magic theatre in Paris in 1845. He transformed his art from one performed at fairs to a performance that the public paid to see at the theatre. His speciality...

Fire performance is a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire. Fire performance typically involves equipment or other...

Shadowgraphy or ombromanie is the art of performing a story or show using images made by hand shadows. It can be called "cinema in silhouette". Performers...

2013, Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked Seedbed the 22nd best work of performance art in history. "Vito Acconci - Kunstmuseum Luzern". Kunstmuseum Luzern...

live to an audience. This is called performance art. Most performance art also involves some form of plastic art, perhaps in the creation of props. Dance...

direct-address style. By the 1960s, the term performance art became popular and involved any number of performance acts or happenings, as they were known....

architecture or landscape design A production of live performance, such as theater, ballet, opera, performance art, musical concert and other performing arts, and...

Wound and the Orifice: Seeing Ron Athey's performances through a cultural anatomy of the vagina". Performance Research. 19 (4): 74–84. doi:10.1080/13528165...

irrationality, and an anti-bourgeois sensibility. The art of the movement began primarily as performance art, but eventually spanned visual, literary, and sound...