For its passionate fans, though, radio drama is a radical performance mode, a near-telepathic transfer of audio cues from the speaker to the listener's brain, intensely visual because the hearer supplies the images and completely different from the more communal experience of movie or television viewing.
A generation ago, a John Eliot Gardiner Beethoven concert was a gathering of rebel upstarts, of musical sans-culottes throwing down a radical performance practice challenge to what Gardiner, in his pre-concert speech, called the old "meat and two veg" approach to the iconic symphonies.
Kanene Holder and Liesbeth Rapp, a radical performance art duo share their tales of that day.
Konstantin's play is performed like radical performance art, ending only in his mother's fury as she is enveloped in smoke.
Born in Linz, Austria, Ms. Export arrived in Vienna at the height of what has been called Viennese Actionism, a 1960's movement of radical performance artists (Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) known for graphic body mutilations and for protests that landed some of them in jail.
The arts scene that sprouted at the Fashion Moda Gallery, founded by a Viennese artist, Stefan Eins, helped ignite the careers of artists like Keith Haring and Jenny Holzer, the radical performance group known as the Guerrilla Girls and 1980's break dancers like the Rock Steady Crew.
Her background partly explains radical performance works like "Cut Piece" (1965), for which she sat impassively, a kind of bodhisattva, while people slowly cut off her clothes.
"Her radical performance made her stage work very heated," she added.
Perhaps most important, he has worked closely with Mexico City's two most famous, outrageous and radical performance artists, Jesusa Rodríguez and Astrid Hadad.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC, the radical performance artist who recently spent seven grueling nights onstage in the rotunda of the Guggenheim, often doing violence to herself, has created an elaborate video work that examines ancient connections between sexuality and folklore.
He long ago gave up the radical performance life that made him one of the most influential underground artists of the '70s, and he has been represented for years by the Gagosian Gallery, the gilded exemplar of the commercial art establishment.
