contents; Preface; Introduction; Autobiographical Voices; PART ONE sex; PART TWO food; PART THREE money/fame; PART FOUR ritual/death; Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations: Performance Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, by Kristine Stiles; biographies; index
Summary
Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work
