Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a performance artist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a performance artist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Performance artists create a performance which can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between the performer and audience or onlookers. They are flexible with the medium of the art work, the setting and the length of time of the performance.

Also known as performer, actor & performance artist, performance poet, mime, multimedia performance artist, impersonator, actor and performance artist, actress and performance artist, actress & performance artist, mimic, drag queen, performance maker.

Professionals 41 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: street performer, 56%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
street performer 56% covered variety artist 56% covered stand-up comedian 56% covered conceptual artist 52% covered singer 45% covered performance artist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from performance artist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a performance artist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A performance artist needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • adjust the performance to different environments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • self-promote communication, collaboration and creativity
  • define artistic vision communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor art scene developments information skills
  • perform live communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse own performance management skills
  • study roles from scripts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • discuss artwork communication, collaboration and creativity
  • follow time cues communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor sociological trends information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a performance artist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Performance artist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a performance artist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.