The uncompromising visionary behind Antony and the Johnsons opened the "Six Eyes" group show at Galerie Du Jour in Paris earlier this week and will take the stage at Coachella this weekend.

"Are you here?” asks the woman manning the door at TriBeCa’s Clocktower Gallery. “Yes, I am here,” I affirm. She’s an event publicist scanning her clipboard and guest list, but she could just as easily have been a choreographed part of Antony and the Johnson’s performance piece -- a meditation on being present in an increasingly disappearing natural world -- soon to begin 13 flights upstairs.