What is the difference between "Performance", "Action Art", "Installation Art" and Video Art?

When the artist or the body of the artist is in focus, so the acting is part of the artwork, it's a performance. When the artist isn't visible but it's still about people and when it's that fast changing in time that you can see the "Beginning" and then "End", than it's "Action Art" (Happaning is kind of outsourced - not directed by a single artist but by many). Installation is when you can't see it "changing" in time, so it looks always the same, or can be at least restored, and when it's about objects.

However even still some installations like "My Breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem") have some performance character (at least in the creation phase), but than again not really, because than "the painting of a painting" could be also a performance, so it's more about the focus.

A recorded and shown as a video performance, without real life viewer and the interaction with the viewer like "The 30 € truth" or "Crying for this Video" for example is a video. (Definition by Bieniek)

"Santa, Santa", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017 St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. The artist makes praying and sexual movements at the same time which are opposites while one is holy and the other not.

The performance took place on St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, Rome on November 12th, 2017.

The theme of the performance is church criticism. It is about the church's double standards in general.

Incidentally, it is a good example of the artist's ability to translate and illustrate ambivalence (or ambiguity) in all imaginable artistic means and languages.

"Santa, Santa", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017 St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. The artist makes praying and sexual movements at the same time which are opposites while one is holy and the other not.

"Santa, Santa", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017 St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. The artist makes praying and sexual movements at the same time which are opposites while one is holy and the other not.

"Santa, Santa", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017 St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. The artist makes praying and sexual movements at the same time which are opposites while one is holy and the other not.

"Santa, Santa", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017 St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. The artist makes praying and sexual movements at the same time which are opposites while one is holy and the other not.