Editing Nivek Ogre (section)

===Live performances===
Ogre's live performances have been referred to as [[performance art]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sullivan |first1=Jim |title=The Thrashing and Gnashing Staturation Point |journal=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=May 26, 1987 |page=39}}</ref> and are influenced by his interest in the horror films,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stewart |first1=Kelly |title=The Undeveloped World of Nivek Ogre |journal=[[Fangoria]] |date=June 2011 |issue=304 |page=85}}</ref> the work of [[Alice Cooper]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Craig |first1=Terry |title=Skinny Puppy Features Shock Rock |journal=[[Star Phoenix]] |date=September 18, 1986 |page=B1}}</ref> and his childhood love of magic tricks.<ref>{{cite journal |title=We got the Dirt (and Blood!) on Ogre |journal=[[Outburn Magazine|Outburn]] |publisher=Litany |date=September 1998 |url=http://litany.net/interviews/outburn.html |access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' attributed Ogre's theatrics to him becoming "the first industrial rock star".<ref name="Essential">{{cite journal |last1=Gold |first1=Jonathan |last2=Kendrick |first2=David |title=It's the Industrial Revolution |journal=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=April 19, 1992 |page=62}}</ref> On stage, he employs a wide range of props and costumes, and uses liberal amounts of fake blood despite an allergy to red food dye.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Gitter|first1=Mike|title=Skinny Puppy: Future Shock|magazine=[[RIP Magazine]]|date=1992|url=http://litany.net/interviews/rip92.htm|access-date=September 22, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509194646/http://litany.net/interviews/rip92.htm|archive-date=May 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite interview |last=Ogre |first=Nivek |interviewer=Corey Goldberg |title=Litany Webchat with Ogre and Jason Alacrity |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXsljF0a50 |publisher=Litany |date=November 18, 2013 |access-date=March 1, 2019|time=20:32}}</ref> He considered the ''Too Dark Park'' tour to be a career  high point<ref name="Soundcheck" /> and one of his favorites, and included several large set pieces,<ref name=Politic /> one of which, the stilt-man, involved Ogre walking on stilts while operating a pair of hydraulic crutches as he lurched towards the audience.<ref name=Politic>{{cite journal |last1=Alexander |first1=Chris |last2=Ogre |first2=Nivek |title=The Politic Spasmolytic: Rash Reflections |journal=[[Fangoria]] |date=January 2014 |issue=329 |page=55}}</ref> When asked if he felt [[Marilyn Manson]] had stolen parts of his old stage show for himself, Ogre insisted that Manson had only ever used the stilt-man character, incorporating it into his own show.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tabata |first1=Susanne |title=Bastard Children of Vancouver Return with the Ultimate Weapon (February 17, 2014) |url=http://beatroute.ca/2014/02/17/skinny-puppy/ |website=[[BeatRoute]] |access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref>

Despite his work being labeled [[shock rock]], he says that his performances are meant to get the audience to think and see different viewpoints rather than simply gross them out.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Burn |first1=Robyn Lisa |title=Band Stresses Imagery |journal=[[Fort Lauderdale News]] |date=May 1, 1987 |page=18}}</ref> He toned down the use of props for his performances with ohGr, wanting the shows to instead focus on music.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cameron |first1=J. |title=ohGr Interview |journal=Slug Magazine |publisher=Litany |date=2001 |url=http://litany.net/interviews/slug2001.html |access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref> He clarified his stance while touring in support of ''Devils in My Details'': "For me, ohGr is not a way to reinvent the wheel but to be open to anything. So it doesn't mean, necessarily, that there's going to be a lot of flash on this tour, because that's more of a Skinny Puppy trademark".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baret |first1=Nathalie |title=OhGr Cuts Flash but Boosts Weird |journal=[[Albuquerque Journal]] |date=December 21, 2008 |page=F5}}</ref> He told the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' that he had disliked his early work with Skinny Puppy, saying that he thought of himself as a "ham-fisted hack". It wasn't until he revisited old concert footage that he changed his mind. "I recently watched a concert video of me cutting a smile into my face during 'Assimilate', and I was creating tension even though I didn't know I was doing it. It all came from my love of magic".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lanham |first1=Tom |title=Nivek Ogre's ohGr Releases 'Tricks' |journal=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |date=August 15, 2018 |page=12}}</ref>