PANSA Donors — Performing Arts Network of South Africa. 10 Contemporary Performance Artists You Should Know. Performance Art: An Introduction. When Art Intersects With Life Many people associate performance art with highly publicized controversies over government funding of the arts, censorship, and standards of public decency.
Indeed, at its worst, performance art can seem gratuitous, boring or just plain weird. But, at its best, it taps into our most basic shared instincts: our physical and psychological needs for food, shelter, sex, and human interaction; our individual fears and self-consciousness; our concerns about life, the future, and the world we live in.