When artists such as Hannah Wilke, ORLAN or Gregor Schneider create images of violence with their works, they certainly do not underestimate the violence of the images, which they are able to exert on their viewers. Rather, they put into practice what Antonin Artaud had already recommended in 1936 as the basis for a gain in knowledge about our temporally limited body-having and body-being: "The Theater of Cruelty".