World Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky nails testicles to Red Square cobblestone in Kremlin protest

[KaerfNomekop]

A RUSSIAN performance artist has been taken to hospital after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights.

A video of the graphic action, available on Russian websites, showed artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum being covered with a blanket by police officers while horrified passersby looked on.

The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Pavlensky was taken to a police station after being treated in a central Moscow clinic.

The Saint Petersburg-based artist said in a statement posted on the Grani.ru website that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society's inaction in the face of the development of a "police state".

Russia marked its annual Police Day holiday on Sunday.

It is not the first time the 29-year-old has resorted to eye-watering methods of protest.

He has previously sown his lips together to demonstrate against the jailing of two female members of the Pussy Riot punk band who staged an anti-Kremlin performance inside Moscow's main cathedral in 2011.

He was also arrested after wrapping his naked body in barbed wire outside a Saint Petersburg government building in May.

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[Narks]

why the fuck would you post this

 

[ertaboy356b]

Crazy shit lol

 

[FireCat]

Ouch! Seems a bit extreme!

 

[seph ir oth]

Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky stages protest at 'apathy, political indifference and fatalism of Russian society'

Red Square has seen a lot over the centuries, from public executions to giant military parades, but a performance artist broke new ground on Sunday when he nailed his scrotum to cobblestones in a painful act of protest.
Pyotr Pavlensky said the protest was his response to Russia's descent into a "police state" and was timed to coincide with Police Day, which Russia's law enforcement officials celebrated on Sunday.

"The performance can be seen as a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society," Pavlensky said in a statement. "As the government turns the country into one big prison, stealing from the people and using the money to grow and enrich the police apparatus and other repressive structures, society is allowing this, and forgetting its numerical advantage, is bringing the triumph of the police state closer by its inaction."

Read more here (there IS a SFW pic if you're curious).

 

[FireCat]

@seph ir oth "If you're reading this, You're too late It's already been posted lol
You see > http://www.thehelper.net/threads/pe...square-cobblestone-in-kremlin-protest.161113/

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Glad to see someone else felt it was interesting enough to share though

 

[seph ir oth]

@seph ir oth "If you're reading this, You're too late It's already been posted lol
You see > http://www.thehelper.net/threads/pe...square-cobblestone-in-kremlin-protest.161113/

Good catch, sorry I was simply posting it really quickly then continued on with work for the day.

Fix'd!