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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Meaning of "performance art" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERFORMANCE ART

performance art play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERFORMANCE ART

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Performance art is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERFORMANCE ART MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work.

Definition of performance art in the English dictionary

The definition of performance art in the dictionary is a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERFORMANCE ART

perform
performability
performable
performance
performance anxiety
performance appraisal
performance artist
performance bond
performance bonus
performance car
performance drugs
performance figures
performance indicator
performance targets
performance test
performance-enhancing drug
performance-related pay
performative
performatively
performatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERFORMANCE ART

black art
body art
clip art
decorative art
fine art
folk art
get something down to a fine art
kinetic art
martial art
minimal art
noble art
op art
outsider art
pop art
rock art
state of the art
the black art
the noble art
video art
work of art

Synonyms and antonyms of performance art in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «performance art» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERFORMANCE ART

Find out the translation of performance art to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of performance art from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «performance art» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

行为艺术
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arte de la performance
570 millions of speakers

English

performance art
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रदर्शन कला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فن الأداء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

исполнительское искусство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arte performática
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্মক্ষমতা শিল্প
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

art de la performance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

seni persembahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Performance-Kunst
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パフォーマンスアート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공연 예술
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seni kinerja
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghệ thuật trình diễn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செயல்திறன் கலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कामगिरी कला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Performans sanat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

performance art
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

performance
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

виконавське мистецтво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arta de performanță
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περφόρμανς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

performance art
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

performance
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

performance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of performance art

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERFORMANCE ART»

The term «performance art» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.342 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERFORMANCE ART» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «performance art» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «performance art» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about performance art

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10 QUOTES WITH «PERFORMANCE ART»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word performance art.
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Marina Abramovic
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
2
Laurie Anderson
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
3
Jack Bowman
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
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Jack Bowman
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Jack Bowman
Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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Jack Bowman
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
7
Jack Bowman
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
8
Mike Figgis
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
9
Troy Garity
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
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Joseph Jarman
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERFORMANCE ART»

Discover the use of performance art in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to performance art and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to Its Theory and ...
This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline.
A. Howell, 2013
2
Performance Art in China
In his comprehensive study, Sydney-based theorist and art historian Thomas J. Berghuis introduces and investigates the idea of the "role of the mediated subject of the acting body in art," a notion grounded in the realization that the body ...
Thomas J. Berghuis, 2006
3
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
First published in 1979, the latest edition of this pioneering study in "the World of Art" series surveys a full century of performance, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 to the second decade of the new millennium.
RoseLee Goldberg, 2011
4
Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America
Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have ...
Jayne Wark, 2006
5
Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by ...
Edited by two seminal Canadian performance artists, this book focuses on the 70s and 80s; a time when women made a big and noisy impact.
Tanya Mars, Johanna Householder, 2004
6
Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, ...
The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts.
Steve Dixon, 2007
7
No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience
The changing role of the spectator in contemporary performance art
Frazer Ward, 2012
8
Performance: Visual art and performance art
This collection reflects not only the multidisciplinary nature of current thinking about performance, but also the complex and contested nature of the concept itself.
Philip Auslander, 2003
9
In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art
. . . "In Other Los Angeleses "is going to transform performance studies because of the richness of Cheng's facts and scholarship and the equal richness of her theoretical frameworks and references.
Meiling Cheng, 2002
10
Marina Abramović and the Future of Performance Art
Their use of storytelling, virtual worlds, audience participation, sound, and the body are documented in this illustrated volume.
Paula Orrell, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERFORMANCE ART»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term performance art is used in the context of the following news items.
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Home is where the art is
Depending on the location and night of attendance, the audience might be greeted with performance art in a public library, learning culinary ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
Kanye West and Steve McQueen Debut 'All Day/I Feel Like That …
... that when he goes down to Art Basel, he considers his interactions with people performance art, because he usually just shouts at people. «Billboard, Jul 15»
3
Why One Indie Artist Is Moving Back To Little Rock From Alamo …
"San Francisco and LA were kind of epicenters of performance art and experimental music," he said, citing places like The San Francisco Tape ... «Hoodline, Jul 15»
4
Art project goes wrong, leaves woman upside down naked hanging …
We'll admit that we're not exactly up on performance art and high art in general, but this strikes us a bit... odd. Hidle Krohne Huse, a Norwegian ... «Entertainment.ie, Jul 15»
5
Swiss Town Launches Bizarre Naked Performance Art Festival
The Body and Freedom Festival, which bills itself as the world's first ever festival for "naked performing in urban space," will take place for the ... «artnet News, Jul 15»
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Let's All Go To This Naked Performance Art Festival In Switzerland!
There's a naked performance art festival in Switzerland next month! Why do we not have our tickets booked?! I'm excited about this news for a ... «The Frisky, Jul 15»
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Marina Abramovic: MONA exhibition puts performance art centre stage
This was, after all, the original intention of performance art, whose heyday was in the 1960s and 70s, when contemporary art was genuinely ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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Introducing Corey Feldman 2.0: Performance Art Star
Forget Shia LaBeouf, our new favorite dilettante performance artist is Corey Feldman, who has been in the news recently following a musical ... «In the Air, Art+Auction's Gossip Column, Jul 15»
9
Behind The Visor: Performance Art at Forecastle
We made our way into the boneyard behind Ocean Stage to meet with George Peele, Forecastle's leading man in performance art and the face ... «Louisville.com, Jul 15»
10
Non-Performance Art
Morrissey and Death Grips are slated to play the Bay Area on the same night. But will either act show up? By Matt Saincome @mattsaincome ... «SF Weekly, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Performance art [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/performance-art>. May 2024 ».
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