Pyotr Pavlensky, a Russian performance artist, today stripped naked and nailed his scrotum to a Red Square cobblestone. The performance is called "Freeze".
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 development into a 'police state'.
Update 11/12/13: The video is taken down by YouTube with a peculiar statement of reasons.
Pyotr now faces up to 15 days of administrative arrest for disorderly conduct.
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| The artist sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, Russia, before police covered him with a blanket. |
