He has wrapped himself in barbed wire,sewn his lips shut and caused the world to wince with his now-infamous stunt in Moscow. As the Russian authorities circle around Petr Pavlensky, the protest artist explains why he's not afraidOn a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, and a 29-year-old man with a gaunt,emaciated face stepped on to the huge expanse of Red Square. He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin, and began to undress. In less than a minute, and he was bare.
A video taken using a handheld camera and posted online moments later shows tourists gawping as he sits on the ground. A police car arrives,and an officer orders the man to collect up. But the man cannot collect up – because he is attached to the icy cobbles with a single, long nail that is driven through his scrotum and into the stones below.
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Source: theguardian.com