Performance art

art using the actions of an artist or other participants (not to be confused with performing arts)

drag artist who dresses and acts with exaggerated femininity for performance purposes

genre; oral poetic performance art based mainly on the poetic as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities

A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events. <!-- ==Background==

drag artist who dresses and behaves with exaggerated masculinity for performance purposes

practice of performing in public places, for gratuities

craft

viral Internet video trend which became popular in November 2016

Ironing in unconventional locations

manipulation of sand to create animation, by applying sand to a surface and then rendering images by drawing lines and figures in the sand with one's hands; a sand animation performer will often use the aid of an overhead projector or lightbox

A bed-in is a nonviolent protest against wars, initiated by Yoko Ono and her husband John Lennon during a two week period in Amsterdam and Montreal as an experimental test of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, artists Ono and Lennon held one bed-in protest at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. The idea is derived from a "sit-in", in which a group of protesters remain seated in front of or within an establishment until they are evicted, arrested, or their requests are met.

installation rock art requiring skill

Psychogeography is the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes. It was developed by members of the Letterist International and Situationist International, which were revolutionary groups influenced by Marxist and anarchist theory as well as the attitudes and methods of Dadaists and Surrealists.

2018 art intervention from a 2006 Banksy painting

live show at a variety of different clubs

thumb|John Lennon and [[Yoko Ono during their 1969 Bed-in]] Bagism is a genre of performance art satirizing social prejudice, where by living in a bag a person could not be judged on their bodily appearance. Bagism was created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as part of their extensive peace campaign in the late 1960s. The intent of bagism was to satirize prejudice and stereotyping. Bagism involved wearing a bag over one's entire body. According to John and Yoko, by living in a bag, a person could not be judged by others on the basis of skin colour, gender, hair length, attire, age, or any other su

poetry composed for live performance

Fastnachtspiel (plural fastnachtspiele, English "shrovetide play") was a type of play performed on Shrove Tuesday or fastnacht during the sixteenth century as a part of pre-lenten carnivals. Extant examples mostly originated from the city of Nuremberg (although they were performed widely) and Hans Sachs was considered the most prolific in this form. Though sometimes performed on stage, fastnachtspiele were most often performed on the street or town square as a part of the carnival celebration. Productions usually lacked props and only had simply scenery. Fastnachtspiele typically used preexist

interdisciplinary academic field

participatory art movement and format

type of artistic interaction

thumb|right|Symbol of Signalism Signalism (; from ) represents an international neo-avant-garde literary and art movement. It gathered wider support base both in former Yugoslavia and the world in the late 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.

Sexecology, also known as ecosexuality, is a radical form of environmental activism based around nature fetishism, the idea of the earth as a lover. It invites people to treat the earth with love rather than see it as an infinite resource to exploit. It was founded by Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, who describe themselves as "two ecosexual artists-in-love", whose manifesto is to make environment activism "more sexy, fun, and diverse". Sexecology employs absurdist humor, performance art and sex-positivity, which Stephens claims "may produce new forms of knowledge that hold potential to

kind of performance art involving hardship

painting series by Andy Warhol, with different colored backgrounds: red, orange, light blue, sage blue, and turquoise

performers, common in Europe and America in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, who starved themselves for extended periods of time, for the amusement of paying audiences

Animatronic puppet

form of visual performance art

instrument destruction type

cultural scene and subculture that was part of the hippie movement in California