Performance artist

Code 2659.2

Performance artists create a performance which can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between the performer and audience or onlookers. They are flexible with the medium of the art work, the setting and the length of time of the performance.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • Apreciación artística
  • intellectual property law
  • labour legislation
  • art history
  • técnicas de dirección y actuación

Skills and competences

  • Utilizar el lenguaje corporal
  • adapt artistic plan to location
  • analyse own performance
  • attend rehearsals
  • self-promote
  • contextualise artistic work
  • discuss artwork
  • define artistic vision
  • monitor sociological trends
  • study roles from scripts
  • keep up with trends
  • gather reference materials for artwork
  • follow time cues

Transversal competences

  • perform live
  • adjust the performance to different environments
  • work with an artistic team
  • define artistic approach
  • manage feedback
  • interact with an audience
  • monitor art scene developments

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences