Comment by DonHopkins

Steve Yegge> But I’ve already started to get strange offers, from people sniffing around early rumors of Gas Town, to pay me to sit at home and be myself: I get to work on Beads and Gas Town, and just have to write a nice blog post or go to a conference or workshop once in a while. I have three such offers right now. It’s almost surreal.

It's all performance art! At the Anthony d’Offay Gallery in 1988, Lucian Freud’s model Leigh Bowery used to get paid to sit on an Empire divan behind a one way mirror and just relax, preen, perch, pose, recline, and do his thing for hours on end, while people paid good money to watch him. Great work if you can get it!

Bob Nickas on Leigh Bowery:

https://www.artforum.com/columns/bob-nickas-on-leigh-bowery-...

>“IT WAS A BIT LIKE GOING to the zoo and watching Guy the Gorilla in drag.” That’s how Cerith Wyn Evans recalls Leigh Bowery’s weeklong London performance at Anthony d’Offay Gallery in 1988. Bowery, each day in a different costume of his own design, appeared behind a one-way mirror, with an Empire divan on which to perch, pose, or recline. Visitors saw him, but he saw only himself, performed for his own reflection. Footage of the event figures prominently in The Legend of Leigh Bowery (2002), Charles Atlas’s recently unveiled documentary, and the spooky, otherworldly spell that Bowery casts is undeniable. The zoo reference nails it. With rivulets of iridescent purple glue spilled like blood from the top of his shaved head and a silky lime feathered bodice, Bowery appears to be an ostrich in human form. Black-spotted faux fur covering his face and upper body, he is transformed into an alien snow leopard. Bowery’s uncanny ability to visually disorient the senses remains unmatched, his reinvention of costume as sculpture groundbreaking. From the tripped-out tribalism of Forcefield and the psychedelic erotics of Christian Holstad to the work of designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Alexander McQueen, his vocabulary, punctuated by about a million sequins, resonates to this day.

Leigh Bowery at d'Offay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGRvjTiJBpI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNlGKUP2F9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6nKBdHZ34

Love! Love! Love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO8QsdJFQ5Y