performance art
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- performance artist noun
Etymology
Origin of performance art
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Across the tent, in a display of performance art, Amanda Ross-Ho continuously pushes a giant, inflatable Earth around a soccer field, symbolic of “the labor it takes to just keep things going all the time.”
From Los Angeles Times
His eventual move was a fortuitous one: Samaras was able to attend Rutgers University from 1955 to 1959, and to study with Pop Art’s best sculptor, George Segal, as well as Allan Kaprow, the originator of those inchoate versions of improv theater and performance art called “happenings.”
Paradise Factory now bills itself as “bringing the rigor of theatrical discipline to the process of cinematic art, and bringing the intimacy and immediacy of the cinema into theatrical performance art.”
From Los Angeles Times
It’s theater for the post-Twitch age, performance art for those weaned on “The Legend of Zelda” or “Pokémon.”
From Los Angeles Times
He views Moltbook more as a piece of performance art, designed to create conversation.
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