Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode.

I turn to performance art when my emotions become overwhelming—when words fail, and the only way to truly express them is through my body language. It is in those moments—when I am uncertain how to articulate my feelings or, conversely, when I am ready to scream my anger and frustration into the world—that I find solace in the only artistic tool I know: performance.