Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through...

Poi is a performing art and also the name of the equipment used for its performance. As a skill toy, poi is an object or theatrical prop used for dexterity...

performing arts, a performance generally comprises an event in which a performer, or group of performers, present one or more works of art to an audience...

Voltaire, Zürich in 1916, many artists have experimented with extreme performance art as a critique of contemporary consumer culture. Some have used bodily...

Luminosity (1997) was a performance art installation by Serbian artist Marina Abramović at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Along with Insomnia and Dissolution...

Endurance art is a kind of performance art involving some form of hardship, such as pain, solitude or exhaustion. Performances that focus on the passage...

747 is a 1973 performance art piece by American artist Chris Burden. The piece is one of a number of photographs of Burden's work that is in the collection...

November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and...

direct-address style. By the 1960s, the term performance art became popular and involved any number of performance acts or happenings, as they were known....

Performance art in China has grown since the 1970s as a response to the very traditional nature of Chinese state-run art schools. It has become more popular...