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Name: Antonin Artaud, French dramatist and theater director
Artist: Antonin Artaud Confronting Bodies: Wladimir Porche, director of "Radiodiffusion Francaise" Date of Action: February 1948 Specific Location: France Description of Artwork: Artaud's radio-production, "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu," consisted of four parts to be read over the radio to introduce a program called "Voices of the Poets." One part attacked American ambitions in the Marshall Plan, another evoked pagan gods from a Mexican cult to which Artaud belonged, another referred to feces and the last to the "anatomy of flatulance."
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