Expansive works in which mostly different media are used. Boundaries between the arts are dissolved and installations also receive a performative and participatory character. It is about a comprehensive experience and visitors often become part of the work.

Sound works are formed of an interaction of sound and objects and/or videos. In most cases, they relate to the space.

It is not just artists who perform; objects can also be performative if they act independently or form a fundamental element of a performance. The term “performative” was coined in speech act theory. It describes a linguistic utterance that results in an action. The same approach can be applied to visual art: artworks that perform an action or that aim to produce one are described as performative.

The term was introduced by Allan Kaprow and used to describe spontaneous artistic interventions or “activities” in the 1950s and 1960s. These were the forerunners of contemporary performance art.

The international art movement organised exhibitions, happenings, concerts and festivals in the 1960s. Fluxus is taken from the word “fluere” (to flow) and refers to a fluid transition between art and life. But the transitions between the art forms that come together in Fluxus are also fluid: music, visual art, literature and theatre, in most cases in the form of happenings and “activities”.

The term was introduced by Dick Higgins in 1966. It refers to an interaction of different media and artistic genres. The boundaries and rules of an art form or a medium should be meaningless. This fusion of the arts creates completely new possibilities. Intermedia should be understood as a universal concept that seeks to eliminate the categorisation of the arts entirely.

Participation is the keyword: the members of the audience become protagonists. But the author of the work is always the artist who has the idea and the concept for it.

A performance is a work that centres on an action. The term is as closely linked to the visual arts as it is to a theatre performance, but it is also connected to music, dance and language. Performances are transient, and most of them cannot be repeated exactly. Their focus is on the experience and the moment, not on the work as an object or a product. Performance art begins to become established in the art world in the 1960s.