Performance Art

This is my favorite medium of creative expression. My desire is to collaborate with other artists to create prophetic performance art pieces.

Below is a modified excerpt from the Columbia University Press.

Performance art is a multidisciplinary art form in which performance is the dominant mode of expression. This art form is evident through centuries of art history, and quite notably among Old Testament prophets. Our current definition of performance art, however, is informed by artists of the 1970's. It may incorporate such elements as music, song, dance, television, film, sculpture, spoken dialogue, and storytelling. Roots of this art form lie in early 20th-century modernist experiments with mixed media, particularly in Dada performances. The direct antecedent of performance art as we know it today, however, can be found in the happenings of the late 1950s and the 1960s. Among the most obvious differences between the two is that the later movement tends to be much less spontaneous in nature than the earlier and that happenings were almost always created by visual artists, whereas performance artists generally have more varied backgrounds, many in theater, writing, or dance.

Primarily an avant-garde form, performance art is often emotional and topical, frequently dealing with political and personal matters and with issues such as race, class, and gender. Probably the best-known contemporary American performance artist is Laurie Anderson. (The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press.)