On Sunday, Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky nailed his scrotum to Red Square. It was an act of protest against what he called the “police state” of today’s Russia. According to The Guardian, “Pavlensky has a history of self-harming art, including sewing his lips together to protest against the jail sentences given to members of Pussy Riot and wrapping himself in barbed wire outside a Russian government building, which he said symbolised ‘the existence of a person inside a repressive legal system.’”
I just — I don’t even… In America we use signs and puppets. What a country.
(ht Shoq)