What is contemporary art? Contemporary art is a term for the art
created in our own times. The Museum of Contemporary Art is
dealing with a very specific segment of contemporary art – the
experimental art that has its origins in the 1960s’ artistic
break from painting and sculpture. Here the idea of the art work
is often at the very centre, as well as the act – the performing
of the work – can be a work of art in itself. Video Art:
experiments with the film media and their narrative forms. Video
artists create, for instance, stories with image fragments,
poetic features and abstract films. Performance Art: has roots
in the visual arts, theatre and dance and uses real time actions
as its means of expression. The performance can be both very
simple with a single person or large-scale technical pieces.
Sound Art: is both a mix of sculpture and music, but can also be
the sound in itself. Sound artists have focused on the sound’s
many forms of expression, for instance, ambient sounds, silence
or electronic noise.