The changing nature of the Artwork with specific reference to perfomance and installation artists, Mike Parr and Ken Unsworth.

Throughout its existence, the artwork has gone through several evolutions and modifications to its physicality as well as with its relations to the world and the audience. Beginning with such simplistic intentions as cave paintings for communicative purposes, to pieces of work made only for aesthetic and decorative purposes, to entire productions involving the audience, the environment and the time into the artwork. The practices of Installation and Performance art have been the fundamental starting …

…the artwork as opposed to just being onlookers and the artist can be the artwork. We can use all our senses in understanding and experiencing the artwork by touching it, moving in it, hearing it, no longer just staring at it. Due to the practice of Installation and Performance artists, art now can breathe, eat, sleep and move with you in your daily life. Because of these practices art is no longer motionless, it lives.