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Artaud&#8217;s preoccupations are seminally those of the contemporary world. Those last writings form the most extraordinary element of Artaud&#8217;s entire prolific body of work\u2014and is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud, through their fiercely exploratory, extreme and combative forms.<br \/>\nArtaud&#8217;s last conception of performance of 1947\u201348\u2014following his <em>Theatre of Cruelty<\/em> provocations of the 1930s, and finally incorporated into fragmentary writings and drawings as well as into sonic experimentation in screams and percussion\u2014is that of a dance-propelled act of autopsy, generating the &#8216;body without organs&#8217; which negates malevolent microbial epidemics. 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