Istvan Kantor

(Hungarian: Kántor István; born August 27, 1949, Hungary) is a Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and one of the early members of Neoism.

In 1976, at the Young Art Club in Budapest, Cantsin met the American prankster and mail artist David Zack.

[3] Zack suggested the idea of adopting the multiple identity Monty Cantsin, which Kantor accepted, to the extent that it became chiefly associated with him.

In 2004, he threw a vial of his own blood on a wall beside a sculpture of Michael Jackson by Paul McCarthy in the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum of Berlin.

[15] The human body in its relation to machines, explored both in its apocalyptic and subversive potentials remains a major theme of his work.