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”.
“The performance can be seen as a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society,” Pavlensky said in a statement.
Via The Guardian.
This is just wrong… so very, very wrong.
Well, you got to give him credit for standing…er, sitting…for his beliefs, at least.