Sylvie Ferre writing on Performance

Mentioning the following:
Orlan and Hubert Besacier have known the same problems with their Symposium of Art Performance from 1978 to 1983.
"The word "performance" according to Jacques Donguy appeared for the first timein 1970 with Mr. Hein in the "Journal of the Aesthetics". It is in my opinion previous to that: Rauchenberg's actions are usualy called performances, Suzi Gablik uses this term in 69 in the journal: Pop Art redefinited.
David Medalla, as soon as 1965 says: " In performance Art, the artist is the tool of art, he is art".
Linked to the 70's, Performance Art already appears during the 60's, remembering Ben Vautier, Gilbert & George and Joseph Beuys's actions. In 1959 the American Allan Kaprow realized 18 happenings in Six parts at Reuben Gallery, and Jean-Jacques Lebel "the Anti-Procès" in 1960.
But the purpose of the excessive happenings of Jodorowski, a transitory panic gone up with Topor, Arrabal, Leyaouanc, was to last no more than one day, and to leave traces which would remain engraved inside the human beings and appear by psychological changes
(" Melodrama sacramentiel ", 2d Festival of free expression of Paris, May 1965, in the American Center).
In Poland, Zbigniew Warpechowski makes its first performance in 1967, long before the word Performance appears in its country, a word heard for the first time in Warsaw and in Lublin , during the Festival organized by Henryk Gajewski and at the same time in the BWA Gallery curated by Andrzej Mroczek in the year 1978.
In 1975 in Marseille, Roland Miller and Shirley Cameron quote then the word " performer - artist ".
In 1968, in Lyon, Jean-Claude Guillaumon invites Ben, Filliou, Dietman, Guinochet and George Brecht for a dinner on the topic " to forget art and come eat with us ".
In 1969, Vito Acconci perform for the 1st time and Michel Journiac made in the Templon gallery the " Messe pour un corps" (mass for a body), an action during which he made the public receive communion with his blood prepared in a blood sausage.