Live/Work/Perform
By Lily Janiak When Charlie, who performs in circus and a variety of other media, gave me a tour of his illegal live-work-performance space last winter, one of the first sights we visited in the 2,800-sq.-ft. former auto shop was behind a partition, buried under props and set pieces and enshrined in a plastic case. "You see this outlet?" he said. "All our electricity for the last three years comes from this o…