Performance art, also known as action art, body art, performance art, etc. , currently widely used abroad. It is based on the artist's own body performance process, through the artist's own body experience, a kind of communication between people and things, and the environment, and at the same time convey some non-visual aesthetic connotations through this communication. Performance art is actually a type of contemporary experimental art, but in the past year or two, some visually "exciting" performance art works have been labeled as "morbid", "bloody" and "violent", which not only caused a lot of controversy in the "circle" but also in the society. In this process, due to the on-site and direct characteristics of "performance art", it is difficult to fully reflect the specific actual situation of a work only by a few photos afterwards, which will inevitably lead to one-sided understanding of performance art by others. Today, the discussion on "performance art" has aroused certain repercussions in the art world and society. However, the crux of the problem is that in this discussion, some of our mass media, including some professional publications, did not introduce the so-called "performance art" objectively, fairly and comprehensively, and hearsay and biased reports misled the public, including some professionals' understanding of "performance art" If we want to discuss these artistic phenomena objectively and fairly, we must provide people in the industry, including some netizens who are interested in avant-garde art, with a comprehensive understanding of these works, as well as commentary articles and knowledge background related to "performance art", which will help us to comment on this phenomenon calmly and rationally. The originator of performance art is a Frenchman named Corrine. 196 1 year, he fell freely from a tall building with open arms, which is called human body writing. Performance art uses exaggerated expression techniques to express people's views on the world with behavior. Some of these behaviors are beautiful and some are ugly, but they are not possessed by people under normal circumstances. Since the appearance of performance art in China, it has been the focus of debate because of its great contrast with China people's aesthetic, moral and social traditions. In the development of "performance art", some creators take self-abuse, injury, bloody and other extreme behaviors as the main manifestations, directly challenging the limits of human nature and morality. We list here, hoping to broaden our thinking about art, life and even life. Zicheng 20065438+0 August 15 Performance Art In China, the so-called performance art is an art form in which artists use the process of thinking and behavior to create. The rise of modern performance art in the west is a strange phenomenon in contemporary western society. Performance art can be defined as a free life activity in essence. China's performance art is an art form brought to the west in the process of China's art modernization. It has appeared since the new wave art period (1985- 1989). During this period, Song Yongping, Song Yonghong's Experience of a Scene, Yi Ding's Street Sculpture and other artistic activities with performance tendency were generally packaged or abused, which was related to the young artists' attempts to seek spiritual freedom through anti-civilization and anti-art means in the 1980s, revealing their resistance to the Cultural Revolution and mental depression, and expressing their desire to seek ideological liberation. In the 1990s, performance art can be roughly divided into two types: one is the process of artists participating in social activities, and the other is the behavior of artists showing their life and living conditions. The first is often a social behavior with large scale, large number of participants and wide coverage. For example, a group of artists came from big cities to poor mountainous areas to create works on the kang of their fellow villagers' homes, in order to express the artists' aversion to commercial culture and their desire to return to nature. This whole process is a kind of performance art; A group called "New History Group" sells self-made "stamp collecting jeans" and portraits of famous entrepreneurs to illustrate the relationship between artists and art appreciators in the consumer era. Some people even hang thousands of red umbrellas on the trees in the park, so that tourists can walk through them and make the audience a part of performance art. Maybe you inadvertently engaged in a performance art? However, when this kind of performance art enters daily life, it is often restricted by society, market, public order and even law, so it is difficult to hold large-scale activities at present. The corresponding performance art of artists to express their life and living conditions has increasingly become one of the forms and means that performance art is keen on. So, Zhao Bandi and the toy panda started a dialogue on environmental protection; Shu Yong found flowers and plants to love on Valentine's Day; "Wang Jin Married a Mule" and other strange and endless performance art and action art, in this multicultural era, performance art, as an art form, naturally entered our lives. However, when life is presented to us as art by artists, it is so unexpected that it even goes far beyond our understanding of normal life and violently impacts our sensory and spiritual endurance limits. They asked our life in an artistic way: Who are we? What are we doing? Where are we going? But at the same time, we also raised great questions about the bottom line of art. What is performance art? So far, performance art has not been defined accurately. Simply put, performance art is the art of live performance by artists. Some people think that performance art is based on the artist's own body and communicates with people, things and environment during the performance. Therefore, performance art is also called action art, body art, performance art and so on. Foreign countries usually refer to "performance art" as "performance art" Art critics believe that performance art is a kind of conceptual art, so its meaning is wider. Besides artists using their own bodies as materials, artists also organize social activities. Some critics also divide performance art into personal behavior and social behavior. -Excerpt from China's Performance Art.