body art

Body art is a particular art made on the human body or made with the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercing, but other types include body tattoo and body painting.
More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits without reason.

Body art is also a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.

Body painting is considered an original and wonderful way to express social, political or mental problems, But there is something wrong here, that you cannot maintain your body painted for a long time, that’s the worst thing of being involved in body art.

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 etcetera.

Scientist research in this area, a special case of the body art strategies is the absence of body. The most important artists that performed the "absence" of body through their artworks were Keith Arnatt, and Anthony Gormley