Matadors and madness: the poses of a visionary – in pictures

One for Sorrow Two for Joy (performance sequence #1), 1976 / 2012

Presented over two days and nights in the window of Acme Gallery in Covent Garden, London, this piece features the artist alongside a pair of magpies, her ‘alter egos’. Finn-Kelcey interacts with the birds as female ‘species’ on display, their calls being broadcast to passersby. A direct response to 1974’s I Like America and America Likes Me, in which Joseph Beuys lived with a coyote for three days, this work signalled Finn-Kelcey’s early interest in making transitory, ephemeral work