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Istvan Kantor, the Hungarian-born Canadian performance shock artist, electro pop/industrial musician, founder of Neoism, and prankster extraordinaire, pioneered a gory vandalism version of the “hang and run” in the ’70s when he waged a Blood Campaign to get banned from most museums around the world. He sprayed giant X’s in his own blood on the walls and paintings of galleries and museums.