spilling crimson says....
Body art is a category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.
In more recent times, body became a subject of much broader discussions and treatments that cannot be reduced to the body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual body etc.
A special case of the body art strategies is the absence ofbody. The most important artists that performed the "absence" of body through their artworks were: Keith Arnatt, Andy Warhol, Anthony Gormley and Davor Džalto.
More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits.
Body art is the modification of any part of the human body for spiritual, religious, artistic or aesthetic reasons.
