Performance Art 227-249

Museums during the early twentieth century had not seemed to incorporate performances that demonstrated contemporary art; this began to change as the art became more popular. Performances contained such meaning in society, and example would be Neshat's performance of 9/11, demonstrating the criticality of the event. Their visual storytelling had then given a three-dimensional performance that needed no words to achieve aesthetic mastery. Other examples of demonstration in art would also be the cultural revolution under Mao Zedong's reign over communist China.  The dismissal of art and culture in order to bring in a reign of modernism had destroyed thousands of years of art (architecture, paintings, martial art, religious practice). In times of struggle art was a tool to record and inform about the world; however hard it may be. Performance art focused a lot on the movement and participation of the audience as seen in Senegalese performances. The use of dance in performance creates a conversation between the audience that transforms images into a message.