Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik opened a show in New York in which he stayed confined to a cage for two weeks while wearing only a dog collar and behaving like a dog. Visitors could enter the cage to play with him, but only after donning protective padding in case Kulik bit them.

At a different New York performance, audience members sat in mobile pens while cast members observed them and moved the cages from one place to the next. The New York Times reported that the goals of the piece were "blurring the line between artist and audience, and the ever-popular audience discomfort."

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