Performance Art on Colleges - St.Teresa’s College (Autonomous)

Student documentaries on Performance Art - St.Teresa’s College (Autonomous): The students of III B.A. Communicative English have created a collection of documentaries on Performance Art.

Performance Art

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Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted.

Although the terms "performance" and "performance art" became widely used in the 1970s, the history of  visual arts performance often dates back to futurist works and the Dada cabaret of the 1910s.

Throughout the 20th century, performance has often been regarded as a non-traditional way of making art. Liveliness, physical movement, and temporary things provided artists with an alternative to the static permanence of paintings and sculptures. After the war, performance often approached conceptual art due to its insignificant nature. 

Currently accepted in the world of  visual arts, the term is also used to  describe works of art in films, videos, photographs, and installations that mediate the actions of artists, performers, or spectators. 

Recently, performance is understood as a way to be directly involved in the politics of social reality, spatial details, and identity.

  • The main purpose of performance art was, in most cases, to challenge  traditional  visual art style practices such as painting and sculpture. Artists often turn to performance when these modes no longer meet the needs of the artist, when they are too conservative or intertwined in the traditional art world and appear to be too far from the general public. Find new audiences and new audiences and test your ideas. 

  • Performance art borrows styles and ideas from other forms of art, or  other forms of activity that are not related to art, such as work such as rituals and work. If cabarets and vaudeville influenced aspects of Dada's performance, this reflects Dada's desire to embrace popular culture charm and popular culture charm. Nowadays, performance artists also borrow from dance and sports.

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