What is Performance Art?

In this Radical Live Art Lecture, José Torres-Tama, performs the role of a renegade scholar, offers a provocative introduction to performance and its intrepid practitioners, who employ video/film, live action, visual tableau, spoken word/poetry, contemporary dance, personal stories, and conceptual movement. A challenging hybrid form to categorize, performance art is regularly demonized by mass media and misunderstood by the general public. Making a case for performance art as the most dynamic and daring genre of the 21st century and new millennium, he offers a charged participatory experience that transforms the static “lecture” into a “Live Art” ephemeral installation.