Russian Artist Slices Off Part Of Ear To Protest Government

Pyotr Pavlensky, a Russian performing artist, cut off a part of his ear in a protest to Russian government.

Pavlensky firstly climbed on wall of the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry without wearing any clothes and began to slice a part of his ear. After a while, police took the man from the wall and transferred him to the hospital for treatment.

Pavlensky is known internationally with attention-grabbing protests he staged. He sewed his mouth shut in solidarity with a feminist rock group and wrapped himself in barbed wire outside a government building in his previous demonstrations.




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Monday, October 20, 2014 SOURCE: CIHAN
Pavlensky on wall
Cuts his ear
Blood
Police
Ambulance
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