Contemporary Performance Art: How it Varies
Contemporary Performance Art: How it Varies
From the early 1970’s performance art has become one of the most revolutionary ways of public expression. It is what some people would describe as “against the norm” when bringing up the subject of art. These kind of performances are presented to either random or specific audiences, where the performer presents and orchestrates scripted or unscripted work, or random and spontaneous works of art which include poetry, acting, dance, song, and painting. These displays can either be live or shown by video. Sometimes the performers aren’t even visible. Just as long as there is a line of connection and communication with the audience, so that it makes the spectator develop their own thoughts and opinions which are or not shared with others. Over the years more and more ways of performance art has been introduced to the world. Today, modern performance art has many different forms that most of us would not even realize was performance art until now. Modern performance art now comes to us on television with the media empire, artists in music, with new and different styles of contemporary performers.
With television the world is constantly viewing various news from all over the world, finding out positive and negative effects of the world on societies and populations. Everyday modern media uses different ways to catch the attention
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of the public to let them know what goes on in the real world. Today public service announcements even come in as performance art. “Truth” or “The Truth” is one company who has a objective like all performers when they deliver something to an audience. Their stage; the streets of the city. The audience; the people who walk among those streets. Their objective simply is, to show this audience the facts about cigarette smoking. Through that they show certain displays such as: Imagine walking down the street. You’re going to work, school, home or some other place
From the early 1970’s performance art has become one of the most revolutionary ways of public expression. It is what some people would describe as “against the norm” when bringing up the subject of art. These kind of performances are presented to either random or specific audiences, where the performer presents and orchestrates scripted or unscripted work, or random and spontaneous works of art which include poetry, acting, dance, song, and painting. These displays can either be live or shown by video. Sometimes the performers aren’t even visible. Just as long as there is a line of connection and communication with the audience, so that it makes the spectator develop their own thoughts and opinions which are or not shared with others. Over the years more and more ways of performance art has been introduced to the world. Today, modern performance art has many different forms that most of us would not even realize was performance art until now. Modern performance art now comes to us on television with the media empire, artists in music, with new and different styles of contemporary performers.
With television the world is constantly viewing various news from all over the world, finding out positive and negative effects of the world on societies and populations. Everyday modern media uses different ways to catch the attention
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of the public to let them know what goes on in the real world. Today public service announcements even come in as performance art. “Truth” or “The Truth” is one company who has a objective like all performers when they deliver something to an audience. Their stage; the streets of the city. The audience; the people who walk among those streets. Their objective simply is, to show this audience the facts about cigarette smoking. Through that they show certain displays such as: Imagine walking down the street. You’re going to work, school, home or some other place
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