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Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. This article lists notable performance artists.
The term "performance art" and "performance" became widely used in the 1970s, even though the history of performance in visual arts dates back to futurist productions and cabarets from the 1910s. [6] [1] Art critic and performance artist John Perreault credits Marjorie Strider with the invention of the term in 1969. [7]
Indigenous performance artists of the Americas (3 C, 1 P) + Women performance artists (2 C, 95 P) B. Buskers (2 C, 9 P) C. Performance artist collectives (89 P) D.
Performance art in New York City (1 C, 105 P) American puppeteers (182 P) S. American spoken word artists (2 C, 79 P) Pages in category "American performance artists"
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, [2] [3] musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. [3] Initially trained in violin and sculpting, [ 4 ] Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York City during the 1970s, focusing ...
In 2013, Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked The Artist Is Present ninth (along with Rhythm 0) in his list of the greatest performance art works. [63] Her performance inspired Australian novelist Heather Rose to write The Museum of Modern Love [64] and she subsequently launched the US edition of the book at the Museum of Modern Art in 2018. [65]
My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source. [33] When she began her Silueta Series in the 1970s, Mendieta was one of many artists experimenting with the emerging genres of land art, body art, and performance art. The films and photographs of Siluetas are in connection with the ...
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, "a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s". [1] Jonas' projects and experiments were influential in the creation of video performance art as a medium.