4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Canadian comedian and filmmaker whose work — Nathan for You, The Rehearsal, The Curse — uses elaborate real-world setups to probe authenticity, social contract, and the nature of performance.
Nathan Fielder's HBO television series in which he helps ordinary people rehearse difficult real-life conversations with escalating layers of simulation and meta-commentary.
Candy Darling (born James Lawrence Slattery) was an American actress and transgender woman who became one of Andy Warhol's most celebrated superstars. Famous for her platinum-blonde glamour and old-Hollywood affect, she appeared in Warhol films and was immortalized in Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. She died of lymphoma at 29.
Klaus Nomi (born Klaus Sperber) was a German-born countertenor and performance artist based in New York whose otherworldly fusion of opera, electronic music, and avant-garde theatricality made him one of the most distinctive figures of the late 1970s-early 1980s underground. He died of AIDS in 1983, among the first public figures to succumb to the epidemic.