If touring Shakespeare is such a win-win deal, just how does transgressive, transsexual, multiracial, confrontational performance art "win"?
The gaggle of Brits just smile back, seemingly relieved that her confrontational performance doesn't involve gobbing on the front row.
Quite where this band links into Ono's vast network of fellow travellers is unclear, but there are levels of confrontational performance here that sit well with the curator's own.
Sehgal's exhilarating This Variation is among the best things in Documenta, as is choreographer Jérôme Bel's Disabled Theatre, a confrontational performance made in collaboration with actors with learning difficulties.
His subtly distanced but exact feeling for characters and atmosphere provides a perfect frame for Finney's confrontational performance, with its abrupt mood swings from anarchic humor to dangerous surliness to seventh heaven.
It's that 2percentt uncertainty that can make the kind of confrontational performance art sometimes found in the theater thrilling.
Inspired by such take-no-prisoners comic geniuses as Sacha Baron Cohen, Matt Stone, and Trey Parker, their acutely confrontational performance style makes the San Francisco Mime Troupe look like a bunch of old biddies gathering for afternoon tea.
The band's brash, dynamic music, with song titles such as "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "No Fun," "Down on the Street," "Dirt" and "Death Trip," alongside Pop's startling, confrontational performance style, eventually made them a widely acknowledged forerunner to punk rock.
Their confrontational live performances, light years before punk rock, are the stuff of legend.
For about 35 years, Galás has been the queen of confrontational vocal performance, co-opting elements of cabaret, blues, jazz and electronic interference to make grand-scale music that traverses the styles and ends up as a highly personal expression, largely of angst, malevolence or possession.
