Russian performance artist nails testicles to pavement to protest ‘police state’ apathy

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**Dreadclaw69**

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russian-nails-testicles-street-protest-police-state-article-1.

A Russian protester had the cajones to nail his testicles to Red Square cobblestone Sunday to protest the nation's "police state."
Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky, 29, sat naked with metal piercing his scrotum outside Lenin's Mausoleum in broad daylight in full view of tourists so they would presumably see his point, according to the Agence France-Presse.

Pavlensky said he resorted to drastic measures on the nation's Police Day holiday to raise awareness about Russia's purported inaction as the Kremlin squashes political rights.

"A naked artist, looking at his balls nailed to the Kremlin pavement, is a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of contemporary Russian society," he wrote in a statement posted to the Grani.ru website.

This is far from the first time Pavlensky abused his own body in protest. He reportedly sewed his lips together in support of the punk group Pussy Riot who were locked up for playing anti-Kremlin music inside Moscow's cathedral in 2011.
He also wrapped his nude body in barbed wire outside the Legislative Assembly Building in Saint Petersburg in May, according to The Moscow Times. He spent several days in police custody and underwent psychiatric exams that declared him legally sane.
After the most recent stunt, police covered Pavlensky with a blanket, brought him to a hospital in central Moscow and finally brought him into custody, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.

**Khorneball**

That's nuts

**Surtur**

It seems to be a pass time for this guy.

**Grey Templar**

dayyyyyyym

Khorneball wrote:
That's nuts

**Relapse**

One show only.

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The article says the artist wanted people to see his " point".
He got his wish.

**hotsauceman1**

Performance artists are idiots. I will just say that

**whembly**

Took a lot of balls for him to do that.

**SlaveToDorkness**

Technically he could do it twice...

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SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Technically he could do it twice...

True, but it said testicles, although I think once would be more than enough.

**LordofHats**

Wow... This guy is now second only to Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire.

**Ouze**

You guys used all the good puns before I got here :(

**Khorneball**

I think he might lack the testicular fortitude to do it a second time.

**Avatar 720**

Ouze wrote:
You guys used all the good puns before I got here :(

Bollocks.

**Relapse**

Ya gotta hand it to the guy, he had the balls to drive his point home.

**d-usa**

I hope I'm not late...

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hotsauceman1 wrote:
Performance artists are idiots. I will just say that

I don't think his girlfriend can call him a "performance artist" anymore.

**Grey Templar**

I heard about people getting nailed but I always assumed it was a euphemism.

**KalashnikovMarine**

So can he win a Darwin award for this?

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KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So can he win a Darwin award for this?

You have to actually die, not be as good as dead.

**Grey Templar**

Relapse wrote:
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So can he win a Darwin award for this?

You have to actually die, not be as good as dead.

I think you only must remove yourself from the genepool. You can still be alive, but must be incapable of reproducing.

**Maddermax**

LordofHats wrote:
Wow... This guy is now second only to Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire.

He's definitely more holey than the monks.

**Relapse**

Grey Templar wrote:
Relapse wrote:
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So can he win a Darwin award for this?

You have to actually die, not be as good as dead.

I think you only must remove yourself from the genepool. You can still be alive, but must be incapable of reproducing.

I just checked the criteria, you guys nailed it.

**Wyrmalla**

He didn't actually castrate himself as far as I can tell. Sticking a few nails through one's scrotum won't do much lasting damage unless they suffer from later infection, at least considering all the BDSM enthusiasts that practice it, it aught not to.

...Ah, I read that in a book once.

**Jihadin**

Punching the clown is a whole new meaning in Russia....

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Jihadin wrote:
Punching the clown is a whole new meaning in Russia....

Can you imagine asking that guy what the capital of Thailand is, followed by the punch line?

**Jihadin**

I wait and ask him that Relaspe when he's carrying a ball peen hammer in hand while he's going to make his 2nd attempt at Mel Brooks version of nailing Christ on the cross.....

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Jihadin wrote:
I wait and ask him that Relaspe when he's carrying a ball peen hammer in hand while he's going to make his 2nd attempt at Mel Brooks version of nailing Christ on the cross.....

It would be good, although I doubt he'll have anymore good wood.

**Jihadin**

Worm Wood........

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Jihadin wrote:
Worm Wood........

He's got a "hole" lot of problems... Which appear to have come to a head.

**azazel the cat**

This guys really went balls to the wall for his art.