Crackhead Barney

Crackhead Barney is an American performance artist and ambush interviewer. She shares video of satirical interviews on social media

In June 2021, Crackhead Barney interviewed Andrew Giuliani, and the two ended up shouting at each other.

In July 2021 Crackhead Barney, along with performance artists Matthew Silver and David Henry Nobody Jr. wrapped themselves in tape together while chanting "we are the unborn" to disrupt a prayer outside an abortion clinic.

Crackhead Barney has additionally interviewed Jake Angeli, asked Eric Adams "how much Black pussy" he gets, and encouraged children at a New York City Police Department gathering to chant "abolish the police".

Style Crackhead Barney has stated that her videos are unscripted. She has cited Dada as an inspiration, stating that it "offers an element of terrible randomness in this terribly random state our country is in." She has also described her work as slapstick.

Political views In January 2021, Crackhead Barney described the attackers of the United States Capitol as "violent MAGA idiots." She referred to "Patriots and QAnon-ers, whatever you want to call the nazis who wear the red hats and fuck their American flags or their machine guns." She additionally stated that "Biden is trash, Kamala is trash, and Trump is definitely trash" because "Biden and fucking Kamala [...] have jailed and incriminated more Black people than Trump and Pence put together."

Personal life Asked by Metal about her identity, Crackhead Barney stated that she was born and grew up in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City. She attended St. John's University and has a BS degree in chemistry with a minor in communications. She refused to provide more details about her background, saying that she generally avoids interviews to keep her identity hidden and that "I’m upset right now, I’m an alien from Mars, and I feel like I give you all you need to know about me from my performance art. That’s it, next question." Later in the interview, she described herself as a "Black queer woman artist". She told Ben Weiss of Input that her parents immigrated to the United States from Nigeria. She attended Hunter College, where she studied painting and sculpture.