Performativity

Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted

The term live art refers to performances or events undertaken or staged by an artist or a group of artists as a work of art, usually innovative and exploratory in nature

Feminist art is art by artists made consciously in the light of developments in feminist art theory in the early 1970s

Interactive art describes art that relies on the participation of a spectator

Happenings were theatrical events created by artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

The term art intervention applies to art designed specifically to interact with an existing structure or situation, be it another artwork, the audience, an institution or in the public domain

Actionism is the English version of the general German term for performance art, specifically used for Vienna-based group Wiener Aktionismus founded in 1962 whose actions were deliberately shocking, often including self-torture