Salvador Dali, a surrealist painter, deliberately deprived himself of sleep to achieve a state between dream and consciousness for his work. In her performance "Rhythm 0", Marina Abramović, a conceptual artist, let the audience do whatever they wanted with her body using a variety of objects in front of them, including a rose, a scalpel, and a gun. Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), a group of researchers, consumed large amounts of drugs in their theory writing sessions, combining science, science fiction, and critical theory of cyberfeminism and cyberspace in their work. Ukrainian conceptual artist Taras Polataiko visited Chernobyl and intentionally exposed himself to ambient radiation to reflect on the nuclear disaster and its consequences to humanity.