About Creative Industries – Performance Art

The next article in the Creative Industries series is about Performance Art and installations,
happenings, theatre-dance performances – artistic areas that since 1989 have increasingly more and more in the Romanian space.

Performance Art covers a wide range of artistic manifestations and can be represented by actions performed by an artist or by other participants, whether external to the performance (audience and interactivity area), in many forms, such as live, documented performance, spontaneous (happening), written, presented in a dedicated space or, conversely, in a space where performances can have different forms and implications, without including human presence. Over the years, performance art has become an independent field, playing a fundamental role in the avant-garde of the 20th century.
This artistic movement involves several basic elements: time, space, body and presence of the artist and the relationship between the artist and the audience, with the aim of generating a reaction, sometimes even through improvisation. The themes addressed in performance art are often closely related to the life experiences of the artist himself or with different socio-political movements specific to a particular context. 

As far as the Romanian space is concerned, there are some significant names that have contributed to what performance art means and its extensions that go as far as drawing, installation, happening, such as Farid Fairuz (choreographer, performance artist – one of the pioneers of contemporary dance, active in the whole mix of theatre/dance/activism), Dan Perjovschi (draughtsman, illustrator – recognizable graphic drawings on socio-political themes), Paul Dunca (choreographer, activist queer activist), Alexandra Pirici (actress, performance artist) and many others.

Currently, most performance art projects touch on social issues, queer intersectionality, feminism, political activism, but also issues related to artistic production. The interdisciplinary nature of performance contributes to art events that take over the art gallery, the stage or other unconventional spaces, offering multiple possibilities of approach and expression to young artists. 

Dance, theatre, installation, video performance, video poetry, happenings and countless other areas are among increasingly explored, with real effects on the whole social and cultural context. political context, especially in the Romanian space.
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