Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Leaving Terra Firma -- Foreword to the Revised Edition -- In Extremis -- Roped: A Saga of Art in Everyday Life Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh -- Before and After Science Stelarc -- This is Only a Test Chris Burden -- A Great Wall Marina Abramovic, Ulay -- Underground -- The Hot Bottom: Art and Artifice in the East Village -- Country Clubbing 8BC's Pig Phest -- To Thine Own Self Be True Ethyl Eichelberger -- Sex Gods, Ekstatic Women John Sex, Nina Hagen, Dancenoise -- The Revolution That Won't Be Televised Michael Smith, Karen Finley, Harry Kipper, et al. -- R.I.P. 8BC The end of the never-ending talent show -- Art Crimes Cinema of Transgression, Outlaw Parties, et al. -- Loisada Talking Pictures Ela Troyano -- The Queer Frontier Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana -- Disenchanted Evening Donna Henes -- Big Bang Theory Poppo Shiraishi -- Bad Company at the Love Club Karen Finley, Carlo McCormick -- Help Thou Mine Unbelief The Church of the Little Green Man -- Nightclubbing The Tompkins Square Riot -- The Triumph of Neoism The Millionth Apartment Festival -- Don't Make Me Over Slaves of New York, Darius James -- Just Revolting Missing Foundation -- Regenerate Art -- Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts: The Taboo Art of Karen Finley -- The Lady Is a Dick: The Dyke Noir Theater of Holly Hughes -- Body Beautiful Frank Moore -- Lydia Lunch Faces the Void -- Learning to Love the Monster Jon Moritsugu, Johanna Went -- The Kipper Kids in Middle Age -- Life is a Killer Joe Coleman -- Is That You? Fiona Templeton -- Deconstructing Dixie Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley -- A Crash of Symbols Sherman Fleming, Kristine Stiles -- Two Birds with One Stone Dancenoise -- A Public Cervix Announcement Annie Sprinkle, the Smut Fest.

Revisions of Excess The V-Girls, Blue Man Group -- An Artist Retreats from Rage Rafael Montañez Ortiz -- Beauties and Beasts Salley May, Ms. Make-Believe, David Lynch -- Radical Shriek Diamanda Galas -- Simulacra Stops Here The Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo -- Redicovering America Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Talk Show Robbie McCauley, Jeannie Hutchins -- A Cinema Against the Vérités Shu Lea Cheang -- Wired -- Am I a Camera? John Jesurun -- Am I Living in a Box? Ann Magnuson -- The Vanguard Moves to Melrose Place Mel Chin and the GALA Committee -- The Heart of the Web Nina Sobell, Emily Hartzell -- Call Her Ishmael Laurie Anderson -- War on Art -- An NEA Timeline (Just the Lowlights) -- Portrait of an Artist in the Age of AIDS David Wojnarowicz -- The Sexual Politics of Censorship Targeted Artists and the Wrathful Dads -- With Mapplethorpe in Cincinnati "The Perfect Moment" on Trial -- The Adventures of Andre Serrano in Pursuit of the White Supremacists -- Gross Indecency: The NEA Four Decision -- Fin-de-Millenium -- The Bohemian Diaspora -- In the Discomfort Zone William Pope.L -- Dancing in the Streets Yoshiko Chuma -- The Pain Artist Bob Flanagan -- The World According to Jack Smith -- Men? Oh, Pause Peggy Shaw -- The Statue of Libertines Annie Sprinkle -- Washed in the Blood Ron Athey -- Stripped Down Zhang Huan -- The Rumble in DUMBO David Leslie -- Silence = Life John Kelly -- The End of the Edge: An Epilogue -- Index -- About the Author.