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The 52 pages that link to Performance art, each with the reason it gives.

• Public artRelated: Performances can bring art into streets, plazas, and other shared settings.

• ActingCompared with: It may present the artist's own actions rather than portray a fictional character.

• Audience participationNarrower topic: Audience participation can alter the roles and boundaries that performance art tests.

• Conceptual artCompared with: Performance art centers enacted presence, while conceptual art may center the proposition or record.

• SculptureCompared with: Performance centers on actions and duration rather than a lasting sculptural object.

• FluxusNarrower topic: Fluxus broadened the possibilities for performance as an independent artistic form.

• Contemporary artBroader topic: It makes actions and events, rather than enduring objects, central artistic materials.

• Avant-gardeRelated: It made the body, time, and live action materials for artistic experimentation.

• HappeningNarrower topic: Happenings are an early and influential form of event-centered art practice.

• Life drawingCompared with: A posed model may become an active participant when stillness and display are questioned.

• Lip syncNarrower topic: Lip sync can turn imitation of recorded speech or song into a deliberate performance.

• SpectatorshipRelated: A live audience’s presence and conduct can shape the event itself.

• Sound artRelated: Live sound works often rely on gesture, presence, and duration as much as audio.

• Antonin ArtaudNarrower topic: Artaud’s emphasis on embodied action and direct audience impact anticipates concerns central to performance art.

• Feminist art movementNarrower topic: Its use of bodies, duration, and audience participation gave feminist artists tools beyond object-making.

• Tableau vivantRelated: Artists have used posed, image-like bodies to test the boundary between live performance and visual art.

• Avant-garde musicRelated: Avant-garde concerts often made gesture, staging, and audience behavior part of the event.

• Body artNarrower topic: Body art frequently takes the form of an action unfolding before an audience.

• Gestural abstractionRelated: The emphasis on painting as an event helped connect mark-making with performed action.

• Postmodern danceRelated: Postmodern dance’s reduced theatricality brought dance into conversation with performance art.

• Dance improvisationNarrower topic: Some improvised dance performances cross into performance art through open-ended action.

• Yoko OnoNarrower topic: Her performances made the body and audience participation central artistic materials.

• Concert danceCompared with: Performance art can use dance but does not necessarily center choreographed movement.

• Harold RosenbergRelated: Rosenberg’s event-based language anticipates questions central to later performance art.

• Joseph BeuysNarrower topic: Beuys used live actions to make artistic meaning unfold through time and presence.

• Off-Off-BroadwayRelated: Some Off-Off-Broadway productions blur theatre with performance art and visual art.

• Tristan TzaraNarrower topic: Tzara’s staged readings and Dada events made performance a means of challenging artistic norms.

• Chantal AkermanNarrower topic: Akerman’s film and installation practice often makes duration and bodily presence feel performative.

• WomanhouseNarrower topic: Live performances activated Womanhouse’s rooms and addressed experiences not conveyed by objects alone.

• Ana MendietaNarrower topic: Her actions made the living body a medium, even when photographs and films became the surviving works.

• Authenticity in artRelated: Its identity may depend on authorized repetition or documentation rather than a unique object.

• Allan KaprowRelated: Kaprow’s events helped establish live action as a medium for later artists.

• ButohRelated: Butoh shares performance art's use of the live body to challenge social and artistic expectations.

• David BlaineRelated: His endurance events blur the boundary between magic performance and durational art.

• History of theatreCompared with: Its boundary with theatre tests assumptions about scripts, roles, and staged representation.

• Marina AbramovićNarrower topic: Abramović’s live actions exemplify a form whose medium is behavior in time.

• Andy KaufmanNarrower topic: Kaufman’s staged personas and audience confrontations overlapped with performance art’s use of live action.

• Grace JonesNarrower topic: Jones’s concerts often treated costume, gesture, and persona as integral parts of the performance.

• Loie FullerNarrower topic: Her stage experiments blurred dance with visual art, theatrical design, and technical demonstration.

• Yves KleinNarrower topic: Klein used live actions to extend painting beyond the canvas.

• Chris BurdenRelated: Burden’s early works depend on actions whose risk cannot be separated from their presentation.

• Laurie AndersonNarrower topic: Anderson’s career grew from this field while expanding it through music and technology.

• Patrisse CullorsNarrower topic: Cullors uses performance to examine identity, violence, and collective memory.

• Vito AcconciNarrower topic: His early practice helped expand performance beyond theatrical presentation into real-world actions.

• Yayoi KusamaNarrower topic: Her public body-painting events connected her practice to the expansion of performance art.

• Birds Aren't RealNarrower topic: The movement's public appearances make its satire function as an ongoing performance.

• Dmitri PrigovRelated: Prigov used public readings and staged personae to make poetry an event.

• Flash mobNarrower topic: Flash mobs can borrow performance art’s use of live action in everyday settings.

• Human furnitureNarrower topic: A posed person can become a living element of a staged artwork.

• Oliver TreeNarrower topic: Tree’s characters and staged antics make performance itself part of his musical presentation.