Every Single Performance Piece From Cate Blanchett's 'Documentary Now!' Episode

Izabella explains to the camera that she grew up in Communist Hungary, and her family's compound didn't allow children. So when an inspector visited their apartment, a young Izabella pretended to be a coat rack, and the man didn't notice, hanging his outerwear on her body. This was the inspiration for her 1970 performance, Coated Spirit.

In one of her early works, Izabella stood just to the side of a bright spotlight.

A piece in which the artist lay, almost entirely still, beneath a blanket, while audiences looked on.

For Square Pig, Izabella rode a tricycle in a rectangle while screaming. While no explanation is given for this piece, it seems like it would have been pretty attention-grabbing.

A piece in which Izabella alternately yelled "Birth!" and "Death!" in a guttural voice while balls were launched across the room at her.

In which the performance artist drank milk from a bowl and growled, "I am human! I am human!" over and over while a cat sat on a chair, a wine glass nearby.

Her most famous piece, The Bucket Series featured a telephone on a pedestal. Audiences were invited to place objects on the floor to impede Izabella, when she ran — barefoot — to answer the phone. It was particularly popular with teenage boys, who loved to put dangerous items in her path.

A piece in which the artist painted herself, then launched her body onto a large canvas.

A blatant rip-off of Izabella's Miss Remembered from nearly a decade earlier, Impressions featured two lovers who threw their painted bodies against a wall, so they'd always remain — even after they left.

While this piece isn't explained, it involved Dimo lying on top of Izabella, who presumably acted as his human box spring.

This particular joint project between Izabella and Dimo involved her being attached to the wall with elastic cords, keeping her just out of reach from the dinner table. He, meanwhile, ate comfortably.

Izabella and Dimo's breakup performance, Stairwell involved the two artists walking up and down the Empire State Building, respectively. The catch? They were both wearing ski boots. And while they were supposed to meet each other halfway on the stairwell, Dimo got distracted, flirted with some secretaries, and eventually took an elevator down, during which time Izabella passed him on the stairs.

This particularly involved performance took an entire year for Izabella to complete. In it, the artist ate one hotdog a day for 365 days, and took all day to eat each frankfurter. Hence the title, which translates to One Day, One Hotdog.

Izabella would use the toilet, whose stall was placed out in the open. An audience member was invited to hand toilet paper to the artist, which proved to be an intimate, emotional experience for many in attendance.

Izabella spun around in a washing machine for this performance as a commentary on domestic duties.

Her final performance piece, Izabella faced an empty chair, much like Abramovic did in her MoMA piece. However, instead of inviting people to sit across from her, as the real-life artist did, Izabella had her former lover, Dimo, fall from a platform above. He then landed in a large, white sack, which was attached to a huge picture of a man's pelvis.

What's so interesting about these pieces is that they could very well be in a museum tomorrow. So whether Izabella's performance pieces are nonsense or ultimately thought-provoking, it's nevertheless hilarious to watch Cate Blanchett play an experimental artist, convulsing her body and screaming, eating nothing but hotdogs for an entire year, and literally putting her body through the wringer. If that's not art, I don't know what is.