Performance art has a history of dealing with intimate acts. Artist Andrea Fraser , for instance, famously had sex with a collector who paid $20,000 to participate in a 60–minute, videotaped act. Now a performance artist says he plans to use one of humanity’s most personal, sacred bonds — marriage — as a vehicle for his latest piece. Brian Feldman says that he will marry a near stranger at a ceremony on Friday at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla., as a protest against what he deems the arbitrary prohibition of same-sex marriage. He seems to want to point out that it’s odd that the state sanctions marriages between random people but not people of the same sex.The lucky lady, Hannah Miller (who reportedly has a very understanding boyfriend), says that the two have never met. (Feldman, for his part, is certain the two crossed paths before.) Feldman picked her from two other candidates who turned up at the Orange County license-bureau yesterday in an attempt to win his proposal.The two have filed their paperwork, with a friend named Jeremy Seghers fronting the $94 and change need to acquire the license. On Friday, in a ceremony scheduled for some time after 3:00 p.m. at the county courthouse, the two will become husband and wife, and know each other for the first time.