performance art

noun

1. 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.

performance art

noun

1. a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc

Other Word Forms

• performance artist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of performance art¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

The exhibition displays over 200 different works drawn from the multiple disciplines Ono has engaged with across almost seven decades, whether film, music, conceptual or performance art, and also includes her continuing peace activism.

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“It’s not exactly traditional performance art, but I believe that spaces like lectures and readings can be made performative.”

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The first few events sat somewhere between performance art and pure anarchy.

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One museum visitor from Ireland who saw the piece on 29 October said they thought it might have been "performance art", but then "quickly realised that this was a guerrilla piece".

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There will also be plenty of film and video in the exhibition, including footage of “Cut Piece,” a legendary piece of performance art first staged in 1964 at Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto, in which Ono sat quietly while the audience cut away pieces of her clothing.

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