art form in which the body is used as the medium (includes tattooing, piercing, scarification, painting, etc.)
Body art is
art made on, with, or consisting of, the
human body. The most common forms of body art are
tattoos and
body piercings, but other types include
scarification,
branding,
scalpelling, shaping (for example
tight-lacing of
corsets),
full body tattoo and
body painting.More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. For example, one of
Marina Abramovic's works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of
Dennis Oppenheim's better-known works saw him lying in the sunlight with a book on his chest, until his skin, excluding that covered by the book, was badly
sunburned. It can even consist of the arrangement and
dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the
plastinated bodies used in the travelling
Body Worlds exhibit.
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