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performance art

Noun

Meaning

performance art (usually uncountable, plural performance arts)

(art) A form of art in which the artist creates a live performance, often using a variety of media.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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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. Laurie Anderson

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. Joseph Jarman

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. Mike Figgis

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. Amanda Palmer

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on. James Marsters

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting. Yoko Ono

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