Yeah, yeah, sure sure. This whole tempest-in-a-newspaper-cup has been a grand exercise in Missing The Point Entirely. Kantor is actually getting this award for his video work, which has nothing to do with these blood stunts he used to pull.

And in the end $15,000 is not much to show for over twenty years of assorted work done in wilful obscurity. I won't pull the 'starving artist' argument with you, but I do know that he has spent most of his life doing low-paying jobs in order to have time to devote to his work - he has carried bedpans, been a caretaker in mental homes, and worked in morgues, crappy factories and construction.