26Live Cat Throwing - Voina
The Russian performance art collective Voina threw live cats at unsuspecting McDonald's employees in Moscow to "break up the drudgery of workers' routine day" on International Workers' Day in 2007.
27. S.G. Boggs is a performance artist who draws currency and then trades it for goods, aiming to question what makes money valuable.
28. Vermin Love Supreme is an American performance artist, anarchist, and activist who is known for running as an alternative candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. Supreme is known for wearing a boot-shaped hat and carrying a large toothbrush.
29. Benjamin Bennett's endurance art piece called "Sitting and Smiling" involves him recording himself sitting motionless and smiling for 4 hours. He has produced hundreds of videos of this performance, including one where a burglar breaks into his house, which he ignores while he continues his performance.
30. Artist Chris Burden created a piece of art called "Samson" that, depending on how many people came to see it, would destroy whatever museum or gallery it was placed in.
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31Paint-Filled Eggs - Milo Moiré
At Art Cologne 2014, performance artist Milo Moiré expelled paint-filled eggs from her vagina onto a large canvas, which became an abstract work of art.
32. During Bob Dylan's performance at the 1998 Grammy Awards, one of the back-up dancers (a self-proclaimed performance artist) ripped his shirt off, revealing the words 'SOY BOMB' painted in big black letters on his chest, and began dancing erratically before being removed by security.
33. Marta Minujín, an Argentinian conceptual and performance artist, used 100,000 commonly censored books to build a full-scale replica of the Parthenon at a Nazi book burning site.
34. In 1976, artist Ulay stole a painting from the New National Gallery in Berlin in broad daylight and then returned it as both a political statement and performance art. He received only a very light sentence.
35. Vito Acconci's performance art piece called Seedbed involved the artist lying hidden under a ramp and masturbating for 8 hours a day while his fantasies about those walking above him were played over a loudspeaker for attendees to hear.
