Performance artist who vomited on Lady Gaga responds to criticism

The performance artist who vomited on Lady Gaga during her set at SXSW has responded to claims she was glamorising eating disorders, saying she was attempting to challenge the concept of beauty.

During Gaga's recent performance at South by Southwest in Texas, Millie Brown drank green coloured milk, stuck her fingers down her throat, and vomited over the singer.

The performance was publicly criticised by singer Demi Lovato, who took to Twitter to say, "As if we didn't have enough people glamorizing eat [sic] disorders already. Bottom line, it's not 'cool' or 'artsy' at all."

Now Brown has responded to Lovato's criticism, telling TMZ, "There's a clear difference between using my body to create something beautiful, to express myself and feel powerful, rather than using it to punish myself and conform to society's standards." It seems that to Brown, bright green vomit is beautiful.

Brown, who uses her own vomit as the main material in her art, also wrote on her Twitter account, "I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Challenging perceptions of art & beauty. If art is your communication it should not be censored." She also retweeted a dismissal of Lovato's criticism from a fan of Lady Gaga.

@ddlovato but yet you bash Gaga? pic.twitter.com/PHpUVmOTIc

Lady Gaga is yet to comment on the criticism, though she did mention the incident in her SXSW keynote speech, saying: "I'm not saying vomit's going to change the world... it's truly just what we wanted to create and do and us respecting each other as artists."