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Dan Hurlin

As a performer he has worked with Ping Chong, Janie Geiser, Annie B. Parson & Paul Lazar, and Jeffrey M. Jones, and directed premieres of works by Lisa Kron, Holly Hughes, Dan Froot, John C. Russell and Erik Ehn.

Gene Tyranny

He has performed on albums by Laurie Anderson (Strange Angels), David Behrman (On the Other Ocean), John Cage (Cheap Imitation and Empty Words), Peter Gordon, and Robert Ashley (Perfect Lives), with whom he frequently collaborates.

Janša

Janez Janša (born in 1970 as Davide Grassi), a Slovenian performance artist

Letty Eisenhauer

Letty Lou Eisenhauer (born 1935) was an American visual and performance artist known for her free-spirited Fluxus performances during the 1960s.

Maple Shade Township, New Jersey

Suzanne Muldowney performance artist best known for her appearances on The Howard Stern Show to discuss and perform her dance interpretation of the cartoon character Underdog.

Nathan Barley

The eccentric and ludicrous Doug Rocket, founder member of The Veryphonics, and played by comedian David Hoyle (a spoof of Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics), also appears in several episodes.

Rudolf Schwarzkogler

Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940 in Vienna – 20 June 1969) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that included artists Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, and Hermann Nitsch.

Swimming to Cambodia

The soundtrack for this film was composed and performed by Laurie Anderson, who would also score Gray's follow-up film, Monster in a Box.

The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra

All ten compositions performed on a custom Fender Stratocaster and utilizing such technical elements as Roland guitar synthesizers, Korg guitar processors, and Roland delays (to name a handful of production components) could be categorized as "difficult listening music" (to use a term created by performance artist and Belew-contemporary Laurie Anderson).

Triztán Vindtorn

Triztán Vindtorn (31 July 1942 – 4 March 2009), born Kjell Erik Larsen, was a Norwegian poet and performance artist from Drammen.


see also

Abigail Levine

Levine has performed recently with Marina Abramović in her retrospective at the New York MoMA, with performance artist Carolee Schneemann, and with choreographers including: Jennifer Monson, koosil-ja hwang, Alan Good, Marianela Boán, Pat Catterson, Larissa Velez, Despina Stamos, Pele Bauch, Wendy Osserman and the Denishawn Repertory Dancers.

Baby D

Baby Dee, American performance artist and singer-songwriter

Catling

Brian Catling (born 1948), English sculptor, poet, novelist, film maker, and performance artist

Česlovas

Česlovas Lukenskas (b. 1959), Lithuanian sculpture and performance artist

Christeene Vale

Christeene Vale, known mononymously as Christeene, is an American drag queen, performance artist, singer-songwriter and rapper.

Costes

Jean-Louis Costes (b. ?), performing as "Costes," French noise musician, performance artist, and film actor

Crush My Soul

Performance artist Bob Flanagan was also featured in the video, portraying an upside down Christ-figure hoisted up on a ceiling.

Daniel Jones

Daniel Alexander Jones (born 1970), American performance artist, playwright, director, essayist and educator

Day of Independence

Performance artist Dan Kwong, who is also a baseball player, coached lead actor Derek Mio in old-style pitching form.

Deborah Pearson

In 2012, she curated the inaugural Live Art Series at the SummerWorks Performance Festival in Toronto featuring a 40 day performance installation by performance artist Nina Arsenault.

Draves

Scott Draves, inventor of Fractal Flames, video artist, and VJ (video performance artist).

Edgy Women

Past performers include actress Marie Brassard, Jess Dobkin (performance artist), Céline Bonnier (actress), Dayna Mcleod (performance artist), Sylvette Babin (performance artist), Coral Short (performance artist), WWKA (Women With Kitchen Appliances), Les Fermières Obsédées (Quebec City), Lazlo Pearlman (UK), and Jen Miller (USA).

Frank Key

In December 2007 Key and the performance artist Germander Speedwell performed the whole of Jubilate Agno.

Gao Yang

Gao Yang (artist), Chinese performance artist and former resident of the Beijing East Village

Grattis världen

Performance artist Pål Hollender, of Swedish Survivor fame, worked on the show as a producer and is seen on camera in several episodes.

Harry Kipper

Based on a family friend of Kipper Kid and performance Artist, Brian Routh, the name Harry was added as a first name for each Kipper Kid in 1971.

Heather Rose

She is currently working on a new novel based on the life of performance artist Marina Abramović.

Herma Auguste Wittstock

Herma Auguste Wittstock studied Fine Arts at Braunschweig University of Art from 1999 bis 2004 with professors Mara Mattuschka, performance artist Marina Abramović and film maker Birgit Hein.

Hugo Largo

Hugo Largo was an American musical group known for their unique lineup: two bass guitars, a violin and singer/performance artist Mimi Goese.

Hunkpapa

Dana Claxton (born 1959), Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer and performance artist

James Luna

James Luna (born 1950) is a Pooyukitchum (Luiseño) and Mexican-American performance artist and multimedia installation artist, living on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California.

Jim Sclavunos

In 2012, Sclavunos began an ongoing collaboration with Australian performance artist/musician Michaela Davies on a composition entitled “FM-2030” (so-named for the transhumanist philosopher Fereidoun M. Esfandiary) utilizing programmed electro-muscular stimulation (EMS) of classical string players to generate involuntary playing movements.

Judy Dunaway

She has performed as a balloon player in compositions by John Zorn and Roscoe Mitchell, and in improvisations and/or collaborations with the FLUX Quartet, performance artist Annie Sprinkle, Fluxus artist Yasunao Tone, video artist Zev Robinson, visual artists Nancy Davidson and Ken Butler, percussionists John Hollenbeck and Matt Moran, the Illuminati big band, DJ Singe (Beth Coleman), and numerous others.

Kakabadze

Irakli Kakabadze, a Georgian writer, performance artist, peace and human rights activist

Kevin Adams

He toured with Rachel Rosenthal, a performance artist, for 5 years, and also worked as a set designer at various theaters and in film in California, before moving to New York.

Lady Gaga Fame

Lady Gaga Fame is a unisex perfume by American performance artist Lady Gaga.

Madame Satã

In between his drag performances, his days as a hustler and his convictions of murder, his image as the legendary cabaret performance artist Madame Satã meaning Madam Satan having been influenced by the 1930s film by Cecil B. DeMille about a woman disguising herself as a notorious temptress to win back her errant husband.

Miss Jackie

Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (1969 – 2007), American performance artist and musician

New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

It features vocals from musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson ("Judges", "A Dream of Water", "All the Colors Bleached to White (ILAIJ II)", and "Fear of the Unknown and the Blazing Sun"), and lead-singer of My Brightest Diamond, Shara Worden ("Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes" and "Fear of the Unknown and the Blazing Sun").

New York / N.Y.

Canadian electronic musician and performance artist Peaches references and sings a snippet of the song in the music video for her song "Show Stopper", which features Danish film actress Charlotte Munck.

Nicole Peyrafitte

Nicole Peyrafitte (born June 18, 1960) is a Pyrenean-born performance artist who considers herself a "Gascorican" (an American from Gascony).

Nozuka

Philip Nozuka (1987) is an American-Canadian actor/performance artist

Patrick Johnson

E. Patrick Johnson, African American performance artist, ethnographer, and scholar

Quan Yeomans

Yeomans has acknowledged feminist performance artist and friend Kiley Gaffney as a major influence.

Rainbow Nation Peace Ritual

What is also significant about this event, is the willing participation of a banner painted by Beezy Bailey, joined by the anarchist Nat Tardrew, filmographer Nodi Murphy, ecologist and artist Karen Rolfes, performance artist Rehane Abrahams, publisher David Robert Lewis, musician Philip Nangle, an art teacher called "Johno" along with an assortment of characters that appear on a piece of documentary footage shot by Craig Mathews of Doxa Productions.

Sexecology

Sexecology (also ecosexuality) is a term coined by performance artist, activist and professor Elizabeth Stephens and sex-educator and performance artist Annie Sprinkle.

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist is a 1997 documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about Bob Flanagan, a Los Angeles writer, poet, performance artist, comic, and BDSM celebrity, who suffered from and later died of cystic fibrosis.

Singing with the Enemy

# K Tron and Exploding Triangles (maverick performance artist band) featuring performance artist Theo Adams vs. Code 5 (vocal harmony 'boyband')

Split Britches

Deb Margolin, no longer a member of Split Britches, is an renowned performance artist, currently a professor at Yale University.

The Amazing Boobzilla

She is better known by her stage name The Amazing Boobzilla and is a performance artist and sideshow performer based in the Oklahoma City area.

The Toxic Avenger Part II

Go Nagai makes a cameo appearance and the film is also the debut of actor/martial artist Michael Jai White and musician/composer/performance artist Phoebe Legere.

Topfreedom

Sherry Glaser: American actress, performance artist, and political activist; member of Breasts Not Bombs.

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

Poet and performance artist Tuli Kupferberg of band The Fugs, dressed as a soldier, parodies war and the sexual nature of man's fascination with guns by stalking affluent New Yorkers on the street and masturbating his toy rifle.

Wendy Froud

Wendy Froud is married to, and often collaborates with, the English "fairy artist" Brian Froud, with whom she has a son Toby, a visual artist, performance artist and filmmaker.