Accordingly, this artist used his own body to perform rituals which he documented through photography or video.
[2] His most famous action is probably Messe pour un corps (Mass for a Body) (1969) a parody of catholic liturgy where he officiated as a priest, offering the audience pieces of blood sausage made with his own blood.
Michel Journiac also wrote two poetry books, Le Sang nu (Naked Blood) (1968) and Délit du corps (Crime of the Body) (1978) and many articles, especially in French art journal ArTitudes.
Sarah Wilson, " Michel Journiac's Masquerades, Incest, Drag and the Anti-Oedipus ", 2003 in Benthien, Claudia, Stephan, Inge (dir.)
Gender Studien mit blick auf ‘den' Mann, Köln, Böhlau Verlag, 2003, p. 128–153.