On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century

Contents

• • • Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Leaving Terra Firma xiii Foreword to the Revised Edition xxiii In Extremis 1 Roped: A Saga of Art in Everyday Life Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh 3 Before and After Science Stelarc 10 This is Only a Test Chris Burden 16 A Great Wall Marina Abramovic, Way 25 Underground 49 The Hot Bottom: Art and Artifice in the East Village 51 Country Clubbing 8BC's Pig Phest 57 To Thine Own Self Be True Ethyl Eichelberger 60 Sex Gods, Ekstatic Women John Sex, Nina Hagen, Dancenoise 64 The Revolution That Won't Be Televised Michael Smith, Karen Finley, Harry Kipper, et al. 67 R.I.P.8BC The end ofthe never-ending talent show 70 Art Crimes Cinema ofTransgression, Outlaw Parties, et al. 74 Loisada Talking Pictures Ela Troyano 78 The Queer Frontier Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana 84 Disenchanted Evening Donna Henes 88 Big Bang Theory Poppo Shiraishi 92 Bad Company at the Love Club Karen Finley, Carlo McCormick 95 Help Thou Mine Unbelief The Church ofthe Little Green Man 98 viii Contents Nightclubbing The Tompkins Square Riot 101 The Triumph of Neoism The Millionth Apartment Festival 105 Don't Make Me Over Slaves ofNew York, Darius James 112 Just Revolting Missing Foundation 115 Regenerate Art 119 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts: The Taboo Art of Karen Finley 121 The Lady Is a Dick: The Dyke Noir Theater of Holly Hughes 132 Body Beautiful FrankMoore 138 Lydia Lunch Faces the Void 141 Learning to Love the Monster Jon Moritsugu, Johanna Went 144 The Kipper Kids in Middle Age 148 Life is a Killer Joe Coleman 154 Is That You? Fiona Templeton 159 Deconstructing Dixie Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley 162 A Crash of Symbols Sherman Fleming, Kristine Stiles 168 Two Birds with One Stone Dancenoise 171 A Public Cervix Announcement Annie Sprinkle, the Smut Fest 174 Revisions of Excess The V-Girls, Blue Man Group 177 An Artist Retreats from Rage Rafael Montanez Ortiz 180 Beauties and Beasts Salley May, Ms. Make-Believe, David Lynch 184 Radical Shriek Diamanda Galas 187 Simulacra Stops Here The Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo 191 Redicovering America Guillermo G6mez-Peiia 194 Talk Show Robbie McCauley, Jeannie Hutchins 200 A Cinema Against the Verites Shu Lea Cheang 206 Wired 213 AmIaCamera? JohnJesurun 215 Am I Living in a Box? Ann Magnuson 218 The Vanguard Moves to Melrose Place Mel Chin and the GALA Committee 221 The Heart of the Web Nina Sobell, Emily Hartzell 225 Call Her Ishmael Laurie Anderson 230 Contents ix War on Art 235 An NEA Timeline (Just the Lowlights) 237 Portrait of an Artist in the Age of AIDS David Wojnarowicz 245 The Sexual Politics of Censorship Targeted Artists and the Wrathful Dads 258 With Mapplethorpe in Cincinnati "The Perfect Moment" on Trial 270 The Adventures of Andre Serrano in Pursuit of the White Supremacists 287 Gross Indecency: The NEA Four Decision 292 Fin-de-Millenium 297 The Bohemian Diaspora 299 In the Discomfort Zone William Pope.L 312 Dancing in the Streets Yoshiko Chuma 318 The Pain Artist Bob Flanagan 321 The World According to Jack Smith 325 Men? Oh, Pause Peggy Shaw 328 The Statue of Libertines Annie Sprinkle 332 Washed in the Blood Ron Athey 336 Stripped Down Zhang Huan 341 The Rumble in DUMBO David Leslie 345 Silence = Life John Kelly 350 The End of the Edge: An Epilogue 353 Index 361 ...