"Vagina + Microphone =
www.epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/lesko_lauren/lesko_thirst.mp3 More sobering, but just as edgy, is the work of Lauren Lesko. For a 1995 recording, "Thirst," she took a decidedly Henri Chopinesque strategy and inserted a contact mic into her vagina. She walked around for nearly 30 minutes, recording the sounds. Taking her cue from earlier performance artists like Carolee Schneeman, who in the early '60s did a famous performance in which she read from a paper scroll that she pulled out of her vagina, Lesko's decidedly feminist statement creates an unusually beautiful soundscape (I'll leave it for you to decide. You can find the file on UbuWeb)."