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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Jewish cultural characteristics, including philosophy, literature, poetry, art, mythology, folklore, mysticism and festivals; as well as Judaism, which...

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

trimming can help reduce risk. Fisting has been depicted or referenced in art, music, cinema and other forms of popular culture. Examples include: Erotic...

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

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...

body piercings, scarification, and body painting. Body art may include performance art, body art is likewise utilized for investigations of the body in...

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...

American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, "a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s". Jonas' projects and...

University of Granada. ISBN 9788491258148. Arts portal Performance art Installation Endurance art 2015 Copenhagen shootings Sandhu, Mediha (2014). "Controversial...

responsible for the rise of actresses such as Isabella Andreini and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios. A commedia, such as The Tooth Puller...

was extremely varied—from painting to quilts, from sculptures and performance art to children's books. As an educator, she taught in both the New York...

motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be...