What is Performance Art?

Performance art is an art that combines two or more artistic media, a traditionally static medium such as sculpture or photography, and a dramatic medium like recitation or improvisation. It usually presents only an audience or does present to the audience with the audience’s participation. Time, space, the performer’s body, or presence in the medium, and a relationship between performer and audience are four basic resources to be from the performance area. Performance arts become more creative with advance media or technique materials such as photographs by varied artists.

 As picture beside, it is one of examples of performance art of remix art. We can see that how artist will  apply fantastic beam by a computer into a landscape photo of a real world. It seems real that a man shooting beams or gathering the beams over the pool under soft and clear combination include matching colors.

 As a picture left side, any artist might create pattern art on fabric base on shape of humans. Each part such as an arm or head has a different pattern life snail - shape pattern on head side and triangle pattern on one of the arm’s side. It is amazing performance art that turns boring fabric into fantastic and creative artwork.

 As picture right side, any people can present themselves as the art. With familiar group dance in interesting costume base in tradition, present, of both could create fresh and wonderful performance art.

Marina’s photos are fresh performance art as above artworks; however, it is hard to accept her artworks as the art. Her entire photo is about her abusing moments by herself or other people like scene that she was hurt by some man. She also used violent tools such as knife and gun. These photos are very shocking and unappreciated to the audience to watch. Additionally, it can affect negatively to young children because they are still in progress to build their personality, and humanism. Some adult even can have different views for crimes as in her photos. It is good and free that each artist discovers their own creative performance art unless it can cause criminal activities or negative affection on our society.