The Last Bohemians
Johanna Went: the cult performance art-punk on feminism, fake blood, embracing ageing and inspiring Lady Gaga
Published: 18 August 2022 at 12:00 Europe/London
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The Last Bohemians LA, supported by Audio-Technica, meets the “hyena of performance art”, whose transgressive spectacles of New Wave theatre, experimental noise, elaborate and crude costumes, chaotic rituals, gory props like pig heads and blood – lots of blood – built a cult following in the 1980s LA punk scene and predated Lady Gaga’s meat dress by decades
