...obviously high caliber performance art (which should be profoundly provocative and thus controversial due to displaced cognitive dissonance).
I have to agree on this point. As performance art goes, it was quite a notable piece. I do not like it one bit, but I do appreciate that aspect. It has...stimulated discussion.
I mostly dislike it because the winning scenario for our species is the diligent preservation of the last remaining fragments of human privacy, dignity and freedom. I don't think the performance helped. Hopefully, I am wrong.
A modern day Andy Kaufman of the cryptoworld.