Ars actionis est actio spectatoribus intra contextum bellarum artium praedita, res a maioribus interdisciplinaria tradita. Actio cum aut sine scripto, fortuita aut arte ordinata, subitaria aut alioquin diligenter designata, cum aut sine societate spectatorum esse potest. Actio viva aut per media, actorque adesse aut abesse potest. Actio esse potest ulla res quae quattuor elementa prima implicat: tempus, spatium, corpus actoris (vel praesentia in medio), et coniunctio actoris et spectatorum. Ars actionis alicubi fieri potest, in ullo loci vel rei genere et ullo spatio temporis. Actiones unius hominis vel totius gregis certo loco et certo tempore opus constituunt, antithesis artis scaenicae, quae orthodoxa artis genera et normas culturales provocat. Exemplar experientia brevis et genuina actori et spectatoribus est in eventu qui iterari, capi, vel vendi non potest.^[1] Differentia, late disputata, de quomodo notiones artium visualium et notiones artium actionis adhibentur, significationes spectaculi artis actionis determinare potest.^[2]

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  Iosephus Beuys, artifex actionis, anno 1978: Jeder Mensch ein Künstler—Auf dem Weg zur Freiheitsgestalt des sozialen Organismus.
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  Marina Abramović, Seven Easy Pieces, 9 Novembris 2005.
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  Marta Minujín, anno 1965.^[3]
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  Minujín, Reading the news (1965).
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  Minujín, Reading the news (1965).
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  Minujín, Reading the news (1965).

• Ars activa
• Ars conceptualis
• Dada
• Drama radiophonica
• Fluxus
• Pantomimus

• Atkins, Robert. 2013. ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present. Ed 3a. Abbeville Press. ISBN 9780789211507. ISBN 9780789211514.
• Carlson, Marvin. 1996. Performance: A Critical Introduction. Londinii et Novi Eboraci: Routledge. ISBN 0415137020, ISBN 0415137039.
• Carr, C. 1993. On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0819552674. ISBN 0819562696.
• Dempsey, Amy. 2002. Art in the Modern Era: A Guide to Styles, Schools, & Movements. Novi Eboraci: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9780810941724.
• Dempsey, Amy. 2005. Styles, schools and movements: the essential encyclopaedic guide to modern art. Novi Eboraci: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500283761.
• Dreher, Thomas. 2001. Performance Art nach 1945: Aktionstheater und Intermedia. Monaci: Wilhelm Fink. ISBN 3770534522.
• Fischer-Lichte, Erika. 2004. Ästhetik des Performativen. Francofurti: Edition Suhrkamp. ISBN 3518123734.
• Goldberg, Roselee. 1998. Performance: Live Art Since 1960. Novi Eboraci: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9780810943605.
• Goldberg, Roselee. 2011. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. Ed. 3a. World of Art. Londinii: Thames & Hudson ISBN 9780500204047, ISBN 0500204047.
• Gómez-Peña, Guillermo. 2005. Ethno-techno: Writings on performance, activism and pedagogy. Londinii: Routledge. ISBN 0415362482.
• Jones, Amelia, et Adrian Heathfield, eds. 2012. Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History. Bristol: Intellect. ISBN 9781841504896.
• Parr, Adrian, ed. 2005. Becoming + Performance Art. The Deleuze Dictionary. Edinburgi: Edinburgh University Press. Google Books. ISBN 0748618996.
• Rockwell, John. 2004. Preserve Performance Art? New York Times, 30 Aprilis.
• Schimmel, Paul, ed. 1998. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979. Angelopoli: Thames and Hudson.
• Smith, Roberta. 2005. Performance Art Gets Its Biennial. New York Times, 2 Novembris.

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Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Ars actionis spectant.

• Dreher, Thomas, ed. Intermedia Art: Performance Art.
• Live Art Archives. University of Bristol Theatre Collection.