Live art

Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted

Actionism is the English version of the general German term for performance art, specifically used for Vienna-based group Wiener Aktionismus founded in 1962 whose actions were deliberately shocking, often including self-torture

Happenings were theatrical events created by artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Arte povera was a radical Italian art movement from the late 1960s to 1970s whose artists explored a range of unconventional processes and non traditional ‘everyday’ materials