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Theater that fired the script, the stage, and often its own pants.
means An artwork where the artist's own body, actions, or presence in a particular time and place IS the piece, rather than something the artist makes and leaves behind.
from The phrase stitches together two old words into a 20th-century art-world label: 'perform,' from Old French parfournir — 'par' (thoroughly) plus 'fournir' (to furnish or carry out), meaning to complete a task fully — and 'art,' from Latin ars, skill. Performance art as a named category crystallized in the 1960s-70s, when artists broke painting and sculpture free of canvas and pedestal and put the live, unrepeatable human act in their place.
- origin
- Grew from 1960s rejection of sellable gallery objects
- marina abramovic
- Sat silent for 736 hours, strangers cried opposite her
- risk
- Chris Burden once had himself shot for art
- critics say
- Hard to tell genius from just standing there