Let's explore the unlimited resources of Performance Art.

Is well known that the art that is presented in galleries and museums is consumed by a limited public, collectors, art lovers, people from the cultural environment and some other artist, excluding in this way the circuit to the rest of those people, specially young people or those who are not attracted to the dynamics presented by the institutions, its creators or the media.

We are all responsible to extend the bonds that may humanize creativity and make others participate so that the public becomes more heterogeneous and increasing. We must all the time rethink Art, develop new dynamics and shapes so that they may adapt to the ongoing changes that are taking place in our society.

All the time, the achievements, the crisis, the changes in attitudes and social behaviours are reflected in the artistic production and in some cases presented in galleries dedicated to contemporaneous art where they work with an innovative spirit in the same idea of art.



Yet, in spite of all this, vanguards art (if the term may be applied in any case)to define this new art of “what is happening right here right now” does not really get through the public who actually is the very reason why the artist is trying to create his piece of work.

This public who undoubtedly lives and shares the daily joys and happiness, pains and anxieties we all undergo in different ways is only but secluded to participate in the historic process our societies might be writing, and is also deprived of the possibility to participate in the development of the common humanizing idea within the art.



One of the ways which proposes solutions to these problems is through Performance Art.

These formulae can integrate all artistic disciplines (painting, dancing, poetry, music, theatre, etc) in one same activity, where alive the artist has a direct contact whit his or her public in a real timing and can express in an open way the message he or she wants to put across.

In addition the artist can receive from the public a response though dialogue, working an enormous diversity of technical possibilities. We can create the open forum of communication that we so badly need nowadays.

The performance piece of art, are not only a way to integrate the public with the vanguards creations but also offer different form of analysis about social or political problems through an aesthetic dimension.

Art performance may be allowed to work more aesthetic experiences, stage abstraction, painting action, visual rhythm, etc, giving the public the possibility to find the artist in action, not just presenting a piece of art already finished but within its moment of creation.

Performance can be staged in the most varied places, in galleries, museums, squares or streets, with stages or without them, merging with the public in a real time.

They may last some minutes or many hours, have a plot or may be completely improvised, may be staged ones or many times, being the performer al last one person or actor and its public.

Performance Art is related to drama, but is not theatre, is not defined and does apply to theatre techniques. That is why the experimental development finds unexausting sources of development.

Performance is a piece of art that can not be sold or bought which makes it even more interesting, independent of the expectations or interest from the establishment and the power of money. In this case the artist concentrates himself in what he or she wishes to communicate without any interest that may bias his piece of work.

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