Performance art
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Performance art is a live, often experimental artistic practice in which the artist’s actions, body, and presence become the primary medium, typically unfolding in real time before an audience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Performance art canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8894911 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Performance art Context triple: [Neo-Dada, influencedMovement, Performance art]
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A.
Theatre and Dance
Theatre and Dance is an academic program focused on the study and performance of theatrical arts and dance, including acting, movement, choreography, and production.
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B.
Kinetic art
Kinetic art is an art movement focused on works that incorporate real or apparent motion as a fundamental expressive element.
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C.
Performing Arts Program
The Performing Arts Program is a grantmaking initiative of the Hewlett Foundation that supports organizations and activities fostering vibrant, diverse, and accessible performing arts.
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D.
Art & Language
Art & Language is a pioneering artists’ collective founded in the late 1960s that became central to the development of conceptual art through its theory-driven, text-based, and collaborative practices.
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E.
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is an art movement in which the underlying idea or concept takes precedence over traditional aesthetic, material, or technical concerns.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Performance art Target entity description: Performance art is a live, often experimental artistic practice in which the artist’s actions, body, and presence become the primary medium, typically unfolding in real time before an audience.
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A.
Theatre and Dance
Theatre and Dance is an academic program focused on the study and performance of theatrical arts and dance, including acting, movement, choreography, and production.
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B.
Kinetic art
Kinetic art is an art movement focused on works that incorporate real or apparent motion as a fundamental expressive element.
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C.
Performing Arts Program
The Performing Arts Program is a grantmaking initiative of the Hewlett Foundation that supports organizations and activities fostering vibrant, diverse, and accessible performing arts.
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D.
Art & Language
Art & Language is a pioneering artists’ collective founded in the late 1960s that became central to the development of conceptual art through its theory-driven, text-based, and collaborative practices.
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E.
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is an art movement in which the underlying idea or concept takes precedence over traditional aesthetic, material, or technical concerns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic genre
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contemporary art practice ⓘ interdisciplinary art form ⓘ |
| differsFrom |
conventional dance
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static visual art ⓘ traditional theatre ⓘ |
| documentedBy |
performance scores
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photography ⓘ textual description ⓘ video ⓘ |
| emergedFrom |
Body art
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Conceptual art ⓘ Dada NERFINISHED ⓘ Fluxus NERFINISHED ⓘ Futurism NERFINISHED ⓘ Happenings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emergedInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
audience-centered
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concept-driven ⓘ ephemeral ⓘ live ⓘ non-repeatable (often) ⓘ often experimental ⓘ process-oriented ⓘ site-specific (sometimes) ⓘ time-based ⓘ |
| hasNotablePractitioner |
Allan Kaprow
NERFINISHED
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Ana Mendieta NERFINISHED ⓘ Carolee Schneemann NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Beuys NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Marina Abramović NERFINISHED ⓘ Tehching Hsieh NERFINISHED ⓘ Vito Acconci NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoko Ono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involves |
documentation through video or photography
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improvisation (often) ⓘ interaction with audience ⓘ real-time actions ⓘ risk or endurance (sometimes) ⓘ use of everyday gestures ⓘ use of ritualized actions ⓘ |
| oftenAddresses |
gender
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identity ⓘ institutional critique ⓘ politics ⓘ race ⓘ social critique ⓘ |
| performedAt |
alternative art spaces
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galleries ⓘ museums ⓘ public spaces ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
body art
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conceptual art ⓘ dance ⓘ happening ⓘ live art ⓘ music ⓘ theatre ⓘ video art ⓘ visual art ⓘ |
| requires | presence of an audience (usually) ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
artist’s body
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artist’s presence ⓘ live action ⓘ space ⓘ time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Performance art Description of subject: Performance art is a live, often experimental artistic practice in which the artist’s actions, body, and presence become the primary medium, typically unfolding in real time before an audience.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.