Extreme performance art

Since the beginning of the Dadaism in the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich in 1916, many artists have experimented with extreme performance art as a critique of contemporary consumer culture. For other meanings see Dada (disambiguation DaDa is a Concept album by Alice Cooper, released Cabaret Voltaire was the name of a Nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland. Zürich (, Zürich German: Züri, Zurich, Zurigo; in English generally Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the Some have used bodily fluids such as blood, faeces and urine. Other times they perform self mutilation. In the 1960s and 1970s extreme performance was elevated to a movement with the Viennese Actionists. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. In recent times there has been a resurgence in extreme performance as a response to the increasing alienation some artists feel in the face of today's technological advances.

Some contemporary artists using extreme performance:

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Ron Athey (born December 16, 1961) is an American performance artist associated with Body art and with Extreme performance art Franko B (born 1960 is an internationally acclaimed London-based Performance artist who uses his own body in his art For other persons with similar names see Bob Flanagan (disambiguation. Yang Zhichao, Born in 1963 in Gansu province Northern Manchuria, is a Chinese Revolutionary and extreme performance artist The original Jim Rose Circus is a modern-day version of a circus Sideshow.

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