Florentina Holzinger

[3] As a child, she was baptised and confirmed Catholic, but left the Church as a young adult "to avoid paying tax".

[6] Holzinger's 2020 dance work Apollon at NYU Skirball, partly based on George Balanchine's 1928 work Apollo, was called a "feminist freak show" by The New Yorker, with a nude all-female cast, and Apollo as a mechanical bull that they ride for pleasure, along with "playful self-mutilation, dildo use, defecation, and coprophagia".

[7] In August 2024, Bergen Kunsthall presented Havneetyde/Harbour Etude, a new large-scale commission, with a warning that it "will contain explicit depictions of self-mutilation, piercing, needles, blood, loud sounds, and nudity".

It includes live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse among the all-female cast and plentiful (fake and real) blood.

[8] Over the opening weekend, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea.