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Transgressive art

Index Transgressive art

Transgressive art is art that aims to transgress; i.e. to outrage or violate basic morals and sensibilities. [1]

97 relations: Albert Camus, Alec Empire, Alice Cooper, American Psycho, Anal Cunt, Andres Serrano, Anthony Julius, Anti-art, Black comedy, Black metal, Blood and Guts in High School, Body art, Bret Easton Ellis, Brotha Lynch Hung, Butthole Surfers, Cannibal Corpse, Carolee Schneemann, Chris Ofili, Chuck Palahniuk, Cinema of Transgression, Cock E.S.P., Crash Worship, Dada, Dead Kennedys, Death metal, Die Antwoord, Experimental rock, Fetus, Fight Club (novel), Fluxus, Gangsta rap, Georges Bataille, GG Allin, Grindcore, Gwar, Hardcore hip hop, Hate (comics), Horrorcore, Iggy Pop, Irvine Welsh, J. D. Salinger, J. G. Ballard, Jack Sargeant (writer), Jean-Louis Costes, Jim Goad, Joan Cornellà, John Waters, Kathy Acker, Kenneth Anger, Kiss (band), ..., Lennie Lee, Lisa Crystal Carver, Lung Leg, Marilyn Manson, Mental disorder, Mentors (band), Mikhail Bakhtin, Misfits (band), N.W.A, New French Extremity, New Gothic, Nick Zedd, Paul Morrissey, Peter Bagge, Pink Flamingos, Piss Christ, Plasmatics, Psychology, Punk rock, Richard Kern, Rick Gibson, Rock and roll, Salon des Refusés, Sex Pistols, Shane Bugbee, Shock art, Shock rock, Shock value, Slayer, Sonic Youth, Splatter film, Subvertising, Surrealism, The Catcher in the Rye, The Holy Virgin Mary, The Meatmen, The Stranger (Camus novel), Throbbing Gristle, To Live and Shave in L.A., Trainspotting (novel), Transgressive fiction, Tyler, the Creator, Usama Alshaibi, W.A.S.P. (band), Weasel Walter, Yang Zhichao, Zhu Yu (artist). Expand index (47 more) »

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist.

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Alec Empire

Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972 in Charlottenburg, West Berlin) is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot.

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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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American Psycho

American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991.

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Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988.

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Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine.

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Anthony Julius

Anthony Robert Julius (born 16 July 1956) is a British solicitor advocate and academic, known among other things for his actions on behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales and Deborah Lipstadt.

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Anti-art

Anti-art is a loosely used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Blood and Guts in High School

Blood and Guts in High School is a novel by Kathy Acker.

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Body art

Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body.

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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer.

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Brotha Lynch Hung

Kevin Danell Mann (born January 10, 1972), better known by his stage name Brotha Lynch Hung, is an American rapper and record producer from Sacramento, California.

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Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981.

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Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American Brutal death metal band from Buffalo, New York, now based in Tampa, Florida.

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Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann (born October 12, 1939) is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender.

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Chris Ofili

Christopher Ofili, CBE (born 10 October 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction.

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Cinema of Transgression

The Cinema of Transgression is a term coined by Nick Zedd in 1985 to describe a New York City-based underground film movement, consisting of a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work.

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Cock E.S.P.

Cock E.S.P. is a band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Crash Worship

Crash Worship or ADRV (Adoración De Rotura Violenta) was a San Diego based experimental aktionist industrial-noise, multicultural/multidisciplinary performance group formed in 1986, most renowned for its live shows in which three stand-up percussionists hammered out concussive poly-rhythms to abstract mutated guitar, synthesizers, effects and dueling vocalists.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

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Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978.

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Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Die Antwoord

Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for "The Answer") is a South African hip hop group formed in Cape Town in 2008.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Fetus

A fetus is a stage in the prenatal development of viviparous organisms.

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Fight Club (novel)

Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.

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Fluxus

Fluxus is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists, composers, designers and poets that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.

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Georges Bataille

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art.

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GG Allin

Kevin Michael "GG" Allin (born Jesus Christ Allin; August 29, 1956 – June 28, 1993) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, who performed and recorded with many groups during his career.

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Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of hardcore punk and heavy metal that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from the most abrasive-sounding musical styles: hardcore punk, extreme metal, industrial and noise rock.

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Gwar

Gwar, often styled as GWAR, is an American heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia in 1984, composed of and operated by a frequently rotating line-up of musicians, artists and filmmakers collectively known as Slave Pit Inc..

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Hardcore hip hop

Hardcore hip hop (also hardcore rap) is a genre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s.

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Hate (comics)

Hate is a comic book by writer-artist Peter Bagge.

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Horrorcore

Horrorcore is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer.

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J. D. Salinger

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J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere (1961) and The Drowned World (1962).

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Jack Sargeant (writer)

Jack Sargeant (born 1968) is a British writer specializing in cult film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures, true crime, and other aspects of the unusual.

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Jean-Louis Costes

Jean-Louis Costes is a noise musician, performance artist and film actor.

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Jim Goad

James Thaddeus "Jim" Goad (born June 12, 1961) is an American author and publisher.

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Joan Cornellà

Joan Cornellà Vázquez (born 11 January 1981) is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, famous for his unsettling, surreal humor and black humor comic strips as well as artwork.

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John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.

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Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer.

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Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer; February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Lennie Lee

Lennie Lee (born 4 March 1958) is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London.

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Lisa Crystal Carver

Lisa Crystal Carver (born 1968 in Dover, New Hampshire), also known as Lisa Suckdog, is an American writer known for her writing in Rollerderby.

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Lung Leg

Lung Leg (born Elisabeth Carr; July 8, 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American pin-up girl and actress perhaps best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album EVOL.

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Marilyn Manson

Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known by his stage name, Marilyn Manson, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, actor, painter, author, and former music journalist.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Mentors (band)

The Mentors are an American heavy metal band, noted for their deliberately shock rock lyrics.

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Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н,; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.

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Misfits (band)

The Misfits are an American punk rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery.

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N.W.A

N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California.

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New French Extremity

New French Extremity (or New French Extremism) is a term coined by Artforum critic James Quandt for a collection of transgressive films by French directors at the turn of the 21st century.

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New Gothic

New Gothic or Neo-Gothic is a contemporary art movement that emphasizes darkness and horror.

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Nick Zedd

Nick Zedd (born January 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and author based in Mexico City.

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Paul Morrissey

Paul Morrissey (born February 23, 1938) is an American film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol.

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Peter Bagge

Peter Bagge (pronounced, as in bag; born December 11, 1957) is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Hate and Neat Stuff.

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Pink Flamingos

Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American black comedy exploitation crime film directed, written, produced, filmed, and edited by John Waters.

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Piss Christ

Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano.

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Plasmatics

Plasmatics were an American punk rock and heavy metal band formed by Rod Swenson and Wendy O. Williams in New York City, New York, in 1977.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Richard Kern

Richard Kern (born 1954) is an American underground filmmaker, writer and photographer.

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Rick Gibson

Rick Gibson (born 1951) is a Canadian sculptor and artist.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Salon des Refusés

The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects", is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Shane Bugbee

Shane Bugbee (born November 9, 1968) is an underground artist, publisher, multi-media communicator, filmmaker and event promoter.

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Shock art

Shock art is contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience.

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Shock rock

Shock rock is an umbrella term for artists who combine rock music or metal with highly theatrical live performances emphasizing shock value.

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Shock value

Shock value is the potential of an action (as a public execution), image, text, or other form of communication to provoke a reaction of sharp disgust, shock, anger, fear, or similar negative emotions.

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Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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Splatter film

A splatter film is a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.

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Subvertising

Subvertising (a portmanteau of subvert and advertising) is the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is a story by J. D. Salinger, first published in serial form in 1945-6 and as a novel in 1951.

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The Holy Virgin Mary

The Holy Virgin Mary is a painting created by Chris Ofili in 1996.

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The Meatmen

The Meatmen are an American punk band headed by Tesco Vee, originally existing from 1981 to 1997.

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The Stranger (Camus novel)

L’Étranger (The Outsider, or The Stranger) is a 1942 novel by French author Albert Camus.

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Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group, officially formed on 3 September 1975 in Kingston upon Hull.

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To Live and Shave in L.A.

To Live and Shave in L.A. (TLASILA) is an experimental music collective founded in 1993 by avant-garde composer/producer Tom Smith (formerly of Washington, DC groups Peach of Immortality and Pussy Galore) and Miami Beach musician/producer Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra.

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Trainspotting (novel)

Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993.

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Transgressive fiction

Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature which focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways.

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Tyler, the Creator

Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), better known as Tyler, the Creator, is an American rapper, record producer, and music video director.

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Usama Alshaibi

Usama Alshaibi (أسامة الشيبي) (born in Baghdad, Iraq on November 20, 1969) is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.

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W.A.S.P. (band)

W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 by Blackie Lawless, who is the last remaining original member of the band.

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Weasel Walter

Weasel Walter is a composer and instrumentalist who founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 and is current member of Cellular Chaos and Lydia Lunch Retrovirus.

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Yang Zhichao

Yang Zhichao (traditional Chinese: 楊志超, simplified Chinese: 杨志超, pinyin: Yáng Zhìchāo; born 1963) is a performance artist living and working in Beijing.

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Zhu Yu (artist)

Zhu Yu (b. 1970"." (January 2, 2003). Sky News. Retrieved July 8, 2006.) is a performance artist living in Beijing, China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgressive_art

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