Performance art

Performance art is a live art form in which artists use actions, bodies, time, and space as the medium of an artwork. It often challenges the separation between art and everyday life.

Live art: Art whose defining medium is live action or performance, often involving direct audience encounter. Performance art belongs to this broader practice of making live action the artwork.
Futurism: An early twentieth-century avant-garde movement that celebrated speed, technology, and modern life. Futurist evenings used staged action and provocation to bring art into public life.
Marina Abramović: A Serbian performance artist known for works involving endurance, presence, and audience interaction. Her performances make duration and the audience’s conduct central to the encounter.
Cut Piece: Yoko Ono’s performance in which audience members were invited to cut away pieces of her clothing. The work makes spectators’ choices and the artist’s vulnerability visible in real time.
Conceptual art: Art in which ideas or procedures take priority over the making of a conventional art object. Performance often realizes an idea through action rather than a lasting object.
Body art: Art that uses the artist’s body as material, subject, or site of action. The performing body can function as both medium and subject.
Dada: An avant-garde movement that used absurdity and anti-art gestures to challenge cultural conventions. Dada performances made disruption and chance artistic strategies.
Yoko Ono: A Japanese multimedia artist whose instruction-based works invite participation and reinterpretation. Her participatory performance Cut Piece exposed the vulnerability of the artist’s body.
Rhythm 0: Marina Abramović’s 1974 performance in which she invited the audience to use objects on her body. It shows how a performance’s meaning can shift with audience actions.
Institutional critique: Art that examines how museums and other institutions shape cultural value and authority. Performances can expose institutional rules by acting within or against them.

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