They executed a neat truce between performance and art objects.
The Adaptives, Mr. West's primary work into the early 1980s, executed a neat, low-key truce between performance and art object.
Mr. Govan recently visited Dallas and toured its "All the World's a Stage" exhibition, which juxtaposed works spanning 2,600 years that explore the relationship between performance and art.
It has mounted groundbreaking surveys — "1965-1975: Reconsidering the Art Object," from 1996, and "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Art Object 1949-1979," from 1998, come to mind.
Installation artists are not normally associated with non-visual media, but complete dissolution of the boundaries between performance and the visual arts can be achieved.
Given that some of these works will blur the line between performance and participation, a few unwary art tourists may find themselves momentarily corralled into being dancers.
The distinction is between performance and welfare.
Artistic images of protest, which today include both the avant-garde and selfies, demonstrate the relationship between performance art and photography in the Tate Modern's new exhibit Performing for the Camera.
Earlier this year, just before she began her 700-hour-long performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Marina Abramović was asked by an art critic to define the difference between performance art and theatre.
It sounds like hard work: an album by a man who sings like a woman, which deconstructs gender and jumps back and forth over the fault-line between performance art and commercial music.
Carnet De Voyage's presentation fell between performance art, multimedia experience and art world satire: the band, which has often likened itself to "a sonic and visual journey into the heart of music history, contemporary culture, and personal memoir," and "an invitation into a magical and mysterious tour" leaves much room for interpretation.
