Inspiration

Permanence is rarely associated with performance. The ephemeral action, set in the field of arts, seems to have no consequences nor traces in the future. The notion of risk appears to be removed from theater and performance. Body Art arrived in 1960s as a movement using the body as material, in a cultural era were many freedoms were gained. It was a movement appreciated by many feminists and they took a lot of risks during their performances, which popularised their movement.

«The body artists were a loose group - mostly categorized as a group by critics and art historians - which developed early within the Performance Art movement. The larger movement's main impetus was to evolve definitions of art to include situations in which time, space, the artist's presence, and the relationship between artist and viewer constituted an artwork. To the body artists, the artist's presence translated to an artist's physicality; not only did they need to personally fulfill a role in the presentation of an artwork, their own flesh and blood would become a key figure in the work as well.» 

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-body-art.htm