Ursula Merchant
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Ursula Merchant (born September 10th 1932 in [[Rostock]) is a German Las Vegas-based performance artist, probably best known for her series 'Forkin Hell' . She incorporated mixed media elements to create situational environments based on collective ideologies that blur the boundary between fact and fiction. Merchant has also received notoriety as a stage/playwright, visual artist, and as singer/songwriter for her feminist neo-fascist musical work. In 1967 Ursula met and briefly lived with Diane Arbus whilst in New York, after attending the "New Documents" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Arbus' photography was to have a profound influence on the work that followed.
Martin Crimp's 1997 play "Attempts on Her Life" is a deconstructivist exploration of her life through the invisible Annie, recollecting (through others speech) her many failed attempts to take her own life.
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