Performance Art

Karen Finley smears Bush all over
The notorious performance artist talks about censorship, where Bush will go after he dies, and her new work "George and Martha," in which Martha Stewart has a tryst with W. and finds Osama hiding in his colon.
The most feared woman on the Internet
Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real?
Call me Laurie
Multimedia performance artist Laurie Anderson on Melville's Bible, the American art of the jump cut and why "Moby-Dick" still matters.
Circus roboticus
A troupe of robots forces audiences to confront the terrors of late 20th century life.
Voice of America
Anna Deavere Smith: The shy priestess of performance art has made a career acting out the intimate confessions of others.
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Lipstick bliss
Bionic queen mothers and walking fish fill the strange, delightful world of British comedian Eddie Izzard.
21st: Live! From my bedroom
"Homecam" operators broadcast their daily lives to Web voyeurs.
The Awful Truth: Show Us Your Ugly Pancreas
When performers reveal just a little more of themselves than you want to see.
The Awful Truth
Laugh, Laugh, I Thought I'd Die

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