Performance Art

While video art can elicit emotional responses and reactions, performance video art further emphasizes and fosters a relationship between art and its audience. There is a defined and established interaction between artists and performers and this can be translated when captured over video. This kind of art requires a conversation between the artist, the art, and the audience; each of their individual roles are important in this exchange.

This is a link discussing a piece of performance art (though not intended for video) called The Kiss. The artist comments in this article on the immortality of this art form.

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Arts/2010/0216/Is-it-art-For-performance-artist-Tino-Sehgal-it-s-immaterial