THEA 3235 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Annie Sprinkle, Performance Art, Feminist Art
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1960s: performance art was used to define any live art such as film, visual art, etc. Performance art is connected to avant garde movements. Connected to fluxus, conceptual art, body art and feminist art. Over the past 50 years, many styles and modes of performance art evolved. Draws from: painting, sculpture, dance, theater, music, poetry, cinema and. It took on a number forms, takes interdisciplinary as its core video. The circus, non-european cultures, indigenous cultures, post-colonial theory communication technology, and spectacles all influence it. One of the most important factors of performance art is its live/life art. According to performance scholar cheng, the theatrical matters are time based and is shared with theatre and other types of performances such as time, space, performer, and audience. Theatrical matrix of time based arts: time, space, In the marina abramovic"s video what is performance art? she uses her body to represent conflict and suffering.
