A balls-to-the-wall Russian performance artist has been arrested after stripping naked and nailing his bollocks to a cobblestone in Red Square. Now that’s what we call a nut job.
Pyotr Pavlensky, 29, said the stunt was a metaphor for “apathy, political indifference and fatalism in modern Russian society”. Sounds like a load of bollocks to us. Literally.
“It’s not the bureaucrats’ lawlessness that is stopping the society from action – it is fixation on its own defeat and loss that is nailing us harder to the Kremlin cobblestones,” he waffled in a Bee Gees-esque falsetto voice. “Thus creating a human army of apathetical statues, patiently awaiting their fate. Right now, when those in power are turning our country into one big prison, openly stealing from the population and redirecting financial flows into the enrichment and expansion of police apparatus and other security services.”
Timed to coincide with Police Day, a national holiday celebrating Russia’s law enforcement officials, Pavlensky walked on to the square, took off his clothes and took up a position outside Lenin’s Mausoleum, one of the capital’s most famous tourist spots. He then hammered his scrotum to the floor.
“The society allows this lawlessness forgetting that their number is bigger and that their inaction is drawing the dawning of a police state nearer,” he added.
Apparently undaunted by the autumnal Russian weather, the protest lasted for around an hour before Pavlensky was removed from the ground by police. It’s unclear if shrinkage was involved. Pavlensky has a history of public performances involving nudity and pain. Previous artistic efforts have included sewing his lips together in protest at the imprisonment of members of Pussy Riot, and wrapping his naked body in barbed wire outside the Saint Petersburg parliament in May. He’s also watched the One Direction movie all the way through.
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