“Excuse me, can you define performance art?”
-A bunch of weirdoes who love to get naked and scream about leftist politics.” (Yuppie in a bar)
-“You mean, those decadent and elitist liberals who hide behind the art thing to beg for government money?” (Politician)

In defenes of performance art By Guillermo Gómez-Peña-http://www.pochanostra.com/antes/jazz_pocha2/mainpages/in_defense.htm