Body art

Body art is art in which the artist uses her or his human body as the primary medium.^[1] Emerging from the context of Conceptual Art during the 1970s,^[2] Body art may include performance art. Body art is likewise utilized for investigations of the body in an assortment of different media including painting, casting, photography, film and video.^[3] More extreme body art can involve mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits.

In more recent times, the body has become a subject of much broader discussion and treatment than can be reduced to body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual avatar bodies, among others.

^ Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford University, p. 88
^ Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford University, p. 88
^ Tate. "Body art – Art Term". Tate. Retrieved 2021-08-11.

[1] Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford University, p. 88

[2] Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford University, p. 88

[:0-3] Tate. "Body art – Art Term". Tate. Retrieved 2021-08-11.

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