performance art
noun
: a nontraditional art form often with political or topical themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance, or painting
performance artist
noun
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The itinerary included performance art in two sets and Asian buffet cuisine (for purchase).
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Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
Why get a Daytona Charger? Being Dodge boss is at least partially performance art.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
Her work has been steady, whether on stage, on screen or doing performance art on the street.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
For Friedman, forty-three, who has been a theatre director and performer in Vermont for almost twenty years, the Civic’s project is community building as a kind of performance art, except that nobody has to talk about it in terms of performance art.
—Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
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Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
Why get a Daytona Charger? Being Dodge boss is at least partially performance art.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
Her work has been steady, whether on stage, on screen or doing performance art on the street.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
For Friedman, forty-three, who has been a theatre director and performer in Vermont for almost twenty years, the Civic’s project is community building as a kind of performance art, except that nobody has to talk about it in terms of performance art.
—Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Performance art.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/performance%20art. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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