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Post-Punk. or: THE DEATH of NIHILISM
We could (( if we really wanted to )) trace the roots of Performance Art back to German Bauhaus’ work around 1919 or 1920, or certainly the Futurists, or the American born (( by former German Bauhaus )) Black Mountain Collage… but while educated artists were applying formulas to routines, using storytelling and imagination to relate ideas and politics to their audience, G.G. Allen was right down the street cutting himself to ribbons while rubbing his own shit in his wounds.