About 10 years ago an artist in Toronto gorged himself on blueberies and a bunch of other blue food, went into the Art Gallery of Ontario, jammed a finger down his throat and hurled all over a painting (a Mondrian I think) that was dominated by the color blue. He claimed it was a comment on the effect that art (literally) had on him.
If memory serves a couple of years later he and at least one other 'artist' were charged with cruelty to animals after they videotaped themselves catching, slowly killing, and then cooking a cat. The videotape was labelled a piece of performance art.
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N P Childs
'I'm Mister Bad Example, the stranger in the dirt, I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt'.
-Mr. Bad Example, W Zevon