Performance Art

Performance art is the actions of an artist viewed by other people. It is when an artist creates art through a set of rules she has made for herself involving physical actions of some kind that may or may not physically involve her. What I mean by this is that the viewer may or may not see her, the viewer may unknowingly or knowingly become the artwork, and/or the piece may only include the artist and the viewer may be just that, the viewer, instead of a participant. In most cases the artist uses her body and voice to create her performance piece and includes a participant of some kind. Props, such as disguises, are also used a lot.