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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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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