Conceptual Art in Motion: Performance Art in their meanings of Body Art and Behavior Art

Abstract

Art, far from being foreign to the changes of its social structure, provoked by the social dramas that Victor Turner describes, accompanies the social and anthropological phenomenon that produced a revision regarding the meaning of the body, from being an object of representation to constructing itself in a tool, a foundation and material of artistic practices. It produces then, what we could consider a change of paradigm of the body in art. The body becomes the subject of vindications, a tool for communication ideals and a privileged protest vehicle. The body turns to a material of creation and destruction, a provocation vehicle to the service of freedom of expression. The artists, bestow a new dimension to the body using it in different ways; this way, it is described inside of the Performance Art (Body Art, Behavior Art), like a conceptual Art in movement.