Here's your chance to watch Amanda Palmer, in her new video, using her body as a canvas for her lyrics Warning: not safe for work

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Last month it was announced that self-styled "punk cabaret" performer Amanda Palmer had managed to raise $1.2m through crowd-sourcing site Kickstarter, with nearly 25,000 fans donating money to fund her forthcoming album Theatre Is Evil. To celebrate, she performed in a car park in Brooklyn wearing a dress made out of balloons, encouraging any of her fans with pins to come forward and slowly burst each balloon until she was left completely naked.

There's probably a metaphor in there somewhere relating to the open relationship Palmer has with her fans, but it also displays her willingness to bare all for her art. This feeling of being comfortable in her own skin can be seen in the stop-motion video – premiered here exclusively – for the excellent Want It Back, in which the lyrics to the song are scrawled on her body (bed sheets, walls and iPad). Talking about the making of the video, Palmer says: "I'm so comfortable being naked at this point that I almost forget … I'm also proud that that video has nudity, but it isn't sexual or erotic … it's using the body as a raw canvas, which I love."

Filmed by Australian director Jim Batt, it's a brilliantly intimate and anarchic representation of the song, the line "it doesn't matter if you want it back, you've given it away" made even more open and honest. Mind you, it could also refer to her no-refunds policy for fans who donated money.

• Want It Back is released on 3 September, Theatre Is Evil is out the following week. Palmer starts her UK tour on 23 October in London.