"Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants."
The study of experimental, conceptual, and avant-garde performance practices.
History of Performance Art: A study of the origins and evolution of performance art, tracing its roots to the early 20th century avant-garde movements, and highlighting key artists and works.
Performance Art Techniques: An exploration of the various techniques employed in performance art, including body art, durational performance, site-specific performance, and participatory performance.
Body and Identity: A study of how performance art artists use their bodies to express identity and to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, and other forms of social identity.
The Relationship between Art and Audience: A discussion of how performance art artists engage with their audiences, and how audience participation and interaction can shape and influence the artwork.
Politics and Activism in Performance Art: An exploration of how performance art has been used as a tool for political and social activism, highlighting key examples of performances that have addressed issues of power, inequality, and social justice.
Collaboration and Cross-disciplinary Performance: A discussion of the ways in which performance art intersects with other artistic disciplines, such as theatre, dance, music, and visual arts, and how collaboration across disciplines can create new forms of performance.
Documentation and Archiving: An examination of the challenges and ethics of documenting and archiving performance art, and the ways in which documentation can shape our understanding and interpretation of the artwork.
Body art: This subfield focuses on the human body as a medium for artistic expression.
Dance: This subfield involves choreographed movements and gestures performed by one or more individuals to convey artistic meaning.
Theatre: This subfield involves scripted performances that are acted out on a stage by one or more individuals.
Mime: This subfield involves the use of body movements and gestures to convey meaning, often without any spoken words.
Performance art installation: This subfield is focused on the creation of immersive and interactive art installations that audiences can engage with.
Experimental theatre: This subfield involves the creation of performances that are unconventional in terms of structure, content or techniques used.
"It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode."
"It had an important and fundamental role in 20th-century avant-garde art. It involves five basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public."
"The actions, generally developed in art galleries and museums, can take place on the street, any kind of setting or space, and during any time period."
"Its goal is to generate a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics."
"The themes are commonly linked to life experiences of the artist themselves, the need for denunciation or social criticism, and with a spirit of transformation."
"The term 'performance art' and 'performance' became widely used in the 1970s."
"Art Critic and Performance artist John Perreault credits Marjorie Strider with the invention of the term in 1969."
"The main pioneers of performance art include Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramović, Ana Mendieta, Chris Burden, Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Tehching Hsieh, Yves Klein, and Vito Acconci."
"Some of the main exponents more recently are Tania Bruguera, Abel Azcona, Regina José Galindo, Marta Minujín, Melati Suryodarmo, and Petr Pavlensky."
"The discipline is linked to the happenings and 'events' of the Fluxus movement, Viennese Actionism, body art, and conceptual art."
"It involves five basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public."
"The themes are commonly linked to life experiences of the artist themselves, the need for denunciation or social criticism, and with a spirit of transformation."
"It had an important and fundamental role in 20th-century avant-garde art."
"Its goal is to generate a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics."
"The actions, generally developed in art galleries and museums..."
"The actions... can take place on the street, any kind of setting or space..."
"It is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode."
"It involves... the relation between the creator and the public."
"...the history of performance in visual arts dates back to futurist productions and cabarets from the 1910s." Note: Please keep in mind that while the quotes provided answer each question, the answers may be expanded or elaborated further within the given paragraph. The quotes aim to provide a concise response to each question.