"Historically, performance art has been a medium that challenges and violates borders between disciplines and genders, between private and public, and between everyday life and art, and that follows no rules."
​-Roselee Goldberg, Art Historian

Performance Art
Is difficult to define.
​Check out these links that try. 

"Performance Art" by The Art Story

"Performance Art" By Wikipedia

"Performance Art" By Khan Academy

"Performance Art" BY Guillermo Gómez-Peña

"Performance Art" By Marina Abramović

"Performance Art" by frank skinner and unlock Art

"Art Which Can't Be Art" by Alan Kaprow

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Watch this video for a brief but thorough history of performance Art and a strong argument for why the audience should "stay in the room."

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Explore these Contemporary Organizations dedicated Specifically
to the medium of performance art 

Performa (NYC)

Panoply (NYC) 

Art/Life Institute (NYC) 

Rosekill (NYC)

Glasshouse ArtLife Lab (NYC)

DFBRL8R (Chicago)

PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE (US PUBLICATION) 

FADO (Toronto)

Viva Art Action (Montreal)

Performance Space (London) 

Little WolF Parade (Nottingham)

Live Art Development Agency (UK) 

Association for performance Art (Berlin)

Month of Performance Art Berlin (Berlin)

Exchange live art (Madrid)

Are we missing an organization specifically dedicated to performance art?
Please let me know! [email protected]

Photo by Ronald Jones, Performance by Evan McCarley (www.evanlmccarley.tumblr.com)