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

Doja Cat amped up the night’s chaos with a genre-bending performance that blurred pop and performance art.

From Salon

It’s not often where you find a provocative band whose handcrafted performance art is just as vital to its legacy as its music.

From Los Angeles Times

In contrast, Burton was performance art — rumpled, often rude, too fidgety to sit in long policy meetings.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s performance art, a way of governing not through policy, but through leveraging symbols.

From Salon

The book centers around four heady weeks at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which begins the unraveling of two newspaper critics who have traveled up from London to cover the sprawling performance art event.

From Los Angeles Times