Table of Contents

Preface by Linda M. Montano 
Introduction: Shall We Talk? Linda M. Montano Performs
Autobiographical Voices, by Angelika Festa 

PART ONE sex
Introduction by Christine Tamblyn 
Vito Acconci 
Philip Corner 
Paul Cotton 
Karen Finley 
Vanalyne Green
Lynn Hershman 
Dick Higgins 
Laurel Klick 
Steven Kolpan 
Jill Kroesen
Robert Kushner 
Minnette Lehmann 
Lydia Lunch 
Paul McCarthy 
Tim Miller 
Frank Moore and Linda Mac 
Vernita Nemec 
Pat Oleszko 
Carolee Schneemann 
Barbara Smith 
Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera
Hannah Wilke 

PART TWO food
Introduction by Moira Roth 
Jerri Allyn
Nancy Barber 
John Cage  
Angelika Festa
Howard Fried 
Joan Jonas 
Alison Knowles 
Leslie Labowitz 
Suzanne Lacy 
Les Levine 
Antoni Miralda 
Susan Mogul 
Faith Ringgold  
Rachel Rosenthal 
Martha Rosler  
Richard Schechner  
Bonnie Sherk 
Stuart Sherman 
Anne Tardos and Jackson Mac Low 

PART THREE money/fame
Introduction by Laura Cottingham 
Eleanor Antin 
Robert Ashley  
Bob and Bob 
Eric Bogosian 
Nancy Buchanan 
Linda Frye Burnham 
Papo Colo 
Lowell Darling 
Steven Durland 
Simone Forti 
Mel Henderson 
Julia Heyward 
Mikhail Horowitz 
Allan Kaprow 
Tom Marioni 
Meredith Monk 
Jim Pomeroy 
Willoughby Sharp 
Michael Smith 
Martin Von Haselberg 
Martha Wilson 

PART FOUR ritual/death
Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard 
Marina Abramovicˇ and Ulay 
Helene Aylon 
Chris Burden  
John Cage 
Ping Chong 
George Coates 
Betsy Damon 
Terry Fox 
Cheri Gaulke 
Alex Grey 
Deborah Hay 
Geoffrey Hendricks 
Donna Henes 
Kim Jones 
Alistair MacLennan 
Ann Magnuson 
Ruth Maleczech 
Paul McMahon 
Ana Mendieta 
Hermann Nitsch 
Lorraine O’Grady 
Morgan O’Hara 
Pauline Oliveros 
Adrian Piper 
Jerome Rothenberg 
Brian Routh 
Robert Schuler 
Theodora Skipitares 
Stelarc 
Elaine Summers 
Fiona Templeton 
Mierle Laderman Ukeles 
William Wegman 
Paul Zaloom 
Ellen Zweig 
Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations: Performance Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, by Kristine Stiles 
Biographies 
Index 

About the Author

Linda M. Montano is a performance artist and the founder of The Art/Life Institute in Kingston, New York. She has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, San Francisco State University, Ohio State University the Chicago Art Institute, the University of California at Los Angeles, Temple University, and the University of Texas.