performance art
a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
Origin of performance art
1Other words from performance art
- performance artist, noun
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On the outside, activists stage elaborate performance art, like handing out flip-flops to shame candidates who switched positions, or flying prop-planes with slogans dragging behind on banners.
Joe Manchin Faces Protests from the Left at Home in West Virginia | Philip Elliott | August 25, 2021 | TimeOno, now 88, has gone on to have her own decade-spanning career as a groundbreaking artist across a variety of mediums, from performance art to music to film to sculpture and painting.
Their partnership, combining avant-garde music and performance art with technology, became a media sensation thanks to Moorman’s willingness — underwritten by her sardonic, sensation-seeking intelligence — to shed her clothes.
By the time he graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavik in 2001, Kjartansson’s theatrical upbringing had merged with an interest in performance art, as practiced by the likes of Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman.
Revisiting ‘The Visitors’: An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece | Sebastian Smee, Gabriel Florit, Joanne Lee | July 23, 2021 | Washington PostAlso, some sectors like travel and performance arts have yet to mount a substantial recovery.
U.S. economy adds 559,000 jobs in May, as the recovery shows signs of strength amid head winds | Eli Rosenberg | June 4, 2021 | Washington Post
For all its performance art and immersive theater foundation, the show also has its own shriek moments.
Prepare for the latest head-scratcher from that strange genre known as “performance art.”
“You are always guaranteed to see Ernesto whip off his towel in the name of performance art,” Milazzo said.
Inside London's Underground Burlesque and Fetish Scene | Liza Foreman | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen it came time to go to school, America seemed like a good place because of my interests: performance art, film, and TV.
Lupita Nyong’o On Her Magical Journey from Kenya to ‘12 Years A Slave’ and Possible Oscar Glory | Marlow Stern | February 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe result was less a dramatic stand-off between humans and animals and more a strangely moving piece of performance art.
British Dictionary definitions for performance art
a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc
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