"performative action" is a valid phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe an utterance or statement that not only conveys information, but also has the power to perform an action or bring about a change. Here is an example sentence using "performative action": "The president's speech was not just a mere statement, it was a performative action that sparked a nationwide movement for social change."
The Swiss Institute's "Four Rooms, One Artist," a show with humor and clarity, samples Mr. Signer's performative action sculptures.
The culmination of these actions finds my various characters physically building a sculpture that marks my study into being and process, illustrating my findings, resulting with a sculptural installation, activated by performative action.
The Free Sidewalk Sex Clinic, a piece of performative action by artists and sex educators Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, is meant to provide complementary and spontaneous sex education throughout the world.
These and most of the other films, videos and photographs in "Off the Wall, Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions," a lackluster exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, are not what you would call enduring works.
This context allows for the interpretation of individual musical output as a stream of discrete actions, with the possibility of constructing sets of performative actions, analogous to those used in Speech Act Theory.
On Friday night's episode of HBO's "Real Time" two members of the political activist group Pussy Riot chatted with Bill Maher about their controversial and performative actions against the Russian government.
Like Abramovic, she started as a painter, but the parallels end there: while the Belgrade-born star went on to conceive work that (with a few exceptions) was designed to operate inside gallery walls, Mendieta often staged her performative actions outdoors, imprinting her body on a beach and snapping a photo, or burying herself in mud and posing for one.
For 10 days in February, the trio lived in a claustrophobic section of the Whitney illuminated by vibrant red lights, where everyday functions were fused with meditative practices and performative actions inspired by attempts to introduce human life to Mars (as well as other ongoing spatial explorations of recent history).
For 10 days in February, the trio lived in a claustrophobic section of the Whitney illuminated by vibrant red lights, where everyday functions were fused with meditative practices and performative actions inspired by attempts to introduce human life to Mars (as well as other ongoing spatial explorations of recent history).
Gender is both a material and a cultural phenomenon; men and women are socialized so that gender becomes an individual's identity, which is maintained in daily interactions and through performative actions [ 35].
More-performative actions, such as virtual sit-ins and e-mail bombs, provoke a concrete disruption of the servers' functionality through the concerted action of participants around the world.
