Examining the Characteristics of Performance Art in the Works of Marina Abramovic from the Point of View of Experts and General Audiences

Performance art can be evolved from other arts that lead the audience from performing a group entertainment to creating a collective work of art. This depicted the presence of the audience in space and its participation in emotional and various results. The performance art has elements of different type of arts and displays the human body as a canvas, which is a part of the main form of art as a moving body. This research points to the investigation of the influence of each of the elements of performance art in the types of mixed arts in Abramović's works. This research is a mixed method. In the quantitative part, a comparative comparison between the components in the selected groups is based on the inferential test statistics. First, by using a systematic review, the grand theory, and coding approach characteristics of performance art are extracted. Then, Delphi future research system is used to select important examples of Marina Abramović's performance art. In the following, the results obtained in the form of a questionnaire are provided to two groups of audiences, which include non-specialists and experts. The sample size for both groups is 384 individuals calculated based on Cochran's formula. The results show that based on the output obtained from multivariate regression, it was determined that in the group of spatial users, the contribution of the factor related to the characteristic of Applied art with a value of (1.000) is higher one and the lowest is related to Innovation and creativity with a value of (0.254) in the group of experts. The highest factor contribution is related to the component of Dramatic, political, and religious arts and linked with traditional, religious rituals with a value of (1.000) and the lowest one is related to narrative and anti-narrative with a value of (0.222).