Performance Art

A performance presented to an audience within a fine art context. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience.

Native American’s creating Sand Art

Yves Klein Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void) 1960

Veruschka The very first supermodel 1960’s “As the one personality who is inseparable from our appreciation of her body, Veruschka (whose real name is Vera Lehndorff) examines her body in relation to beauty, through transfigurations. She wants us to see that there is a major difference between “transform” and “transfigure”: The latter goes much deeper, is more radical, and is ultimately about transcendence.”

Gerlovina Rimma

Living Museum Temporary Artist IS the art Scene & costume made by artist Interaction with viewers

Your Challenge: Create your own performance piece in the form of a living museum Find a fairly famous work of art to recreate and insert yourself into Create a background, props, costume, etc. We will “perform” these pieces for our school community

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