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The 52 pages that link to Performance art, each with the reason it gives.
Audience participationNarrower topic: Audience participation can alter the roles and boundaries that performance art tests.
FluxusNarrower topic: Fluxus broadened the possibilities for performance as an independent artistic form.
HappeningNarrower topic: Happenings are an early and influential form of event-centered art practice.
Lip syncNarrower topic: Lip sync can turn imitation of recorded speech or song into a deliberate performance.
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.
Body artNarrower topic: Body art frequently takes the form of an action unfolding before an audience.
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.
Joseph BeuysNarrower topic: Beuys used live actions to make artistic meaning unfold through time and presence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Philippe PetitNarrower topic: The walk blurred the boundaries between spectacle, artistic gesture, and public event.
Viennese ActionismNarrower topic: Viennese Actionists made bodily action, rather than a durable object, the work itself.