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Burn: The Radical Disappearance of Kathy Change
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 2011 (T210)
- pp. 52-72
- Article
- Additional Information
Kathy Change was a performance artist whose outrageous public performances and leftist politics were largely ignored by the University of Pennsylvania students she performed for, until she set herself on fire. Her 1996 self-immolation prompts an inquiry into the effectiveness of public suicide as a mode of political performance.