Together, these two horribly matched people created a troubled, physically powerful, emotionally frail, and altogether brilliant child, whose provocations shaped their lives.
On Wednesday the festival announced that the director of a new "Parsifal" in 2016 would be the German multimedia artist Jonathan Meese, whose provocations have included spray-painting swastikas and the use of the Hitler salute.
The biggest names were Milo Yiannopoulos, the "free-speech fundamentalist" whose provocations got him banned from Twitter, and Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who has parlayed his notoriety into a strange form of Internet celebrity.
Though he later fell in with a violent revolutionary group and was arrested and imprisoned, he started out as a prankster or, to use his term, a "fun guerrilla," whose provocations — he once planned to ambush Hubert H. Humphrey with cake-mix "bombs" — made him West Germany's answer to Abbie Hoffman.
Aggression has already arrived in the form of Bane (Thomas Hardy), a hulk of a man burning with resentment against a society whose only provocation is being prosperous, generous, welcoming, and content — instead of miserable like him.
Sex sells, and drawing does not come any sexier than Schiele's transfixing image, whose ultimate provocation is the way one of the women looks around at the artist to show that she is gratifying his fantasy.
Ai, who grew up in a reëducation camp in northwest China, to which his poet father had been banished, is a firebrand for democracy whose frequent provocations include countering the 2000 Shanghai Biennial with an exhibition not altogether subtly entitled "Fuck Off".
The New York of "Blank City" is a notable exception, a hotbed of feminism, glamour and sexual provocation whose resident geniuses included Ms. Gordon, Ms. Lunch, Patti Astor, Lizzie Borden and Susan Seidelman, among others.
After the documentary was released this month, Mr. Udaltsov immediately denounced it in a Twitter post as "dirt and lies," calling it a "provocation whose ultimate objective is to justify my arrest".
Jodorowsky had come to film through the avant-garde directing productions of Beckett, Ionesco and others in Mexico before producing early films like The Holy Mountain, whose mixture of provocation and hallucinogenic spirituality appears, from the clips show in the documentary, to have combined the kitsch of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theater Company with the high strung camp of Warhol's Factory.
