Cultural Revolutions Felt 'Round the World: 1960s to 1980s

Question 1

Performance Art

Answer 1

(1960s- present) involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer’s body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience; scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated, spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation; live or via media; the performer can be present or absent

Question 2

Theory of Social Sculpture

Answer 2

culpture is only really complete if you have some aspect of society working with you to complete it

Question 3

Video Art

Answer 3

(1960s- present) relies on moving pictures in a visual and audio medium, does not necessarily rely on many of the conventions that define theatrical cinema; experimented formally with the limitations of the video format

Question 4

Installation Art

Answer 4

(1960s- present) genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific, designed to transform the perception of a space, and interior; “environment’ coined by Allan Kaprow; takes into account a broader sensory experience than viewing art on a wall or pedestal