Their message is explicit: "We want to spill our blood, brains, and seed in our life-search for new meaning and purpose to give to life." Although it's difficult to say what this new meaning might be, it's clear that Gilbert & George think they can find it in bodily substances. Shit, piss, blood, uri

Body art, Funny, Homoerotic, Ironic, Slick, Smart, Visceral

Orlan is a devoted martyr and a jaded exploitationist, a sincere Feminist and a technological utopianist, a social artist and a shameless self-promoter all rolled into one. Her ongoing Performance art piece, which has been variously entitled "The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan" and "Image -- New Images

Body art, Bombast, Dissonant, Grotesque, In-your-face

Hailed by critics as one of the most important artists of his generation, Bruce Nauman has had a protean career, flowing from one medium to the next and one concept to the next with each work. Concept, indeed, is the core of his work. In order to convey new messages, Nauman challenges traditional not

Body art, Death, Euphoric, Repetitive

Vito Acconci, performance and video artist, has created seminal works of art in the truest sense of the word. Particularly considering his most notorious performance, "Seedbed" (1971), which involved Acconci masturbating on the Sonnabend Gallery floor. For "Seedbed" Acconci performed beneath a sloped

Body art, Bombast, Erotic, In-your-face, Perverse, Profane, Religious