performance art

noun

: a nontraditional art form often with political or topical themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance, or painting

performance artist noun

Examples of performance art in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In addition to the footage itself, the screening is interspersed with performance art and live music, offering poignant insights into this community’s struggles and opportunities of the broader Calumet Region. —Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026

Hartline, the creator of the show, described the concoction as a mixture of theater, performance arts and character development. —Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026

Chase’s mixed-media work is situated at the avant-garde crossroads of installation and performance art. —Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026

An architect by training, Censori, 31, has been an enigmatic and largely silent fixture in West’s orbit for years, making her statements mostly through provocative performance art that often incorporates public nudity. —Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for performance art

• apart
• depart
• flowchart
• forepart
• impart
• pushcart
• rampart
• redstart
• restart
• subpart
• sweetheart
• upstart