Editing Performance art (section)

=== Performance in China ===
{{Main|Performance art in China}}

In the late 1990s, Chinese contemporary art and performance art received great recognition internationally, as 19 Chinese artists were invited to the Venice Biennial.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Berghuis|first=Thomas J.|title=Performance Art in China|date=2006|publisher=Timezone 8|location=Hong Kong|isbn=9889926598|page=52}}</ref><ref name="observer">{{cite news|author=Cooper, Rafi|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2289411,00.html|title=Cultural revolutionary|work=The Observer|location=UK|date=July 6, 2008|access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref> Performance art in China and its history had been growing since the 1970s due to the interest between art, process and tradition in Chinese culture, but it gained recognition from the 1990s on.<ref name="yishu-online 1008">{{Cite web|url=https://yishu-online.com/browse-articles/?1008|title=Up Against the Wall: Contemporary Chinese Performance Art and the Great Wall|last=Chan|first=Shing-Kwan|date=September 2019|publisher=Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art|volume=18|number=5|page=45}}</ref><ref name="Montano" /> In China, performance art is part of the fine arts education programme, and is becoming more and more popular.<ref name="yishu-online 1008" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wolseleymedia.com.au/AP-Ai-Weiwei.html|title=Ai Weiwei|publisher=wolseleymedia.com.au|year=2008|access-date=May 27, 2020}}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the early 1990s, Chinese performance art was already acclaimed in the international art scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publicdelivery.org/he-yunchang/|title=He Yunchang, China|access-date=May 27, 2020|date=2014|publisher=Public Delivery}}</ref><ref name="yishu-online 1008" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collection/search/archive/li-xianting-archive-concept-21-21/object/performance-by-concept-21-at-the-great-wall-21-192555|title=Performance by Concept 21 at the Great Wall|access-date=May 27, 2020|website=Asia Art Archive}}</ref>

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File:Fitness culturel (Biennale 2013, Lyon) (10787512893).jpg|Performance art in the Lyon Biennale
File:Fitness culturel (Biennale 2013, Lyon) (10783977835).jpg|Performance art in the Lyon Biennale
File:Le pavillon de la Roumanie (55ème Biennale de Venise) (10168262204).jpg|Performance at the entrance of the Romanian Pavilion at the [[Venice Biennale]]
File:Table with Accumulator Beuys Tate Modern AR00603.jpg|Performative installation by [[Joseph Beuys]] in the [[Tate Modern]] of London
File:Re publica 2013 Tag 3 – Ai Weiwei (8735247120).jpg|Video installation with the Chinese artist [[Ai Weiwei]]
File:Documentation of Tehching Hsieh's project in NYC (1395277535).jpg|[[Tehching Hsieh]] exhibition in downtown New York City
File:Chien-Chi Chang-China Town Venezia Biennale-2009.jpg|China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
File:Wang Xiaoshuai-2120.jpg|Portrait of [[Wang Xiaoshuai]]
File:Liu Xiaodong.jpg|[[Liu Xiaodong]] during a performance artwork
</gallery>