Performance poetry is a broad term, encompassing a variety of styles and genres. In brief, it is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience.
H. O. Tanager performs at a bookstore in Boise, Idaho.
Hugo Ball performing at the Cabaret Voltaire
Natias Neutert performing Diogenes Synopsis as at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, 1986
Galway Kinnell performing a poetic piece in Vermont
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art.
Conceptual work by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960. Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void).
Revived Cabaret Voltaire on the Spiegelgasse street 1 in Zürich, 2011
Original plaque of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich
Original poster of the first function of the Cabaret Voltaire, by Marcel Słodki (1916)