4 Ibid., p. 178.

　　5 Chris McCormack is a writer/art critic/artist who performed in Raging Balls. He presented a live reading of the Raging Balls text in front of the projected video of his face; he did this after the instructed audience had thrown mashed paper balls at Ashery and her collaborator Owen Parry. McCormack was wearing grey shorts and a T-shirt as well as thin slip-on shoes that one might wear outdoors or indoors. He was clearly meant to look vulnerable portrayed like this amongst the audience and was dressed in this way to reference a key sentence noted within the text: “I will scrape my knees and I will fight, I will fight, you will have to drag me to the station, do you hear me? Five big guys in full armour will have to drag me, a white plucked chicken in shorts, to the station.”

　　6 Quote taken from Jean Fisher, Tales from the Dark Side (a monograph on Shaheen Merali), Double Agency, 2001. Fisher makes the valuable comment surrounding race and identity in an artwork by Ashery and co-creator Shaheen Merali entitled Colored Folk.

　　7 See Giorgio Agamben, The Man Without Content, Stanford University Press, 1999 (translated from the original 1994 text by Georgia Albert), p. 5.

　　8 In the performance Ashery is dressed in late 1960s attire, as the original work is based on the 1968 student riots in Paris. The artist can be seen protecting herself with art magazines such as Frieze and Artforum from an audience instructed to throw condensed paper balls “in a rage” at her and Owen Parry, a second performer.

　　9 See David Wojnarowicz – A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side, p. 228. Jennifer Doyle’s essay ‘A Thin Line’ (p.227-231) refers to Douglas Crimp’s book entitled “ De-Moralizing Representations of AIDS.” In Melancholia and Morlism Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, Boston: MIT Press, 2004, p.267.