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Petr Pavlensky

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Performance Artist

The Resume

    (March 8, 1984- )
    Born in St. Petersburg, Russia
    Russian conceptual artist/political activist
    'Projects' include 'Stitch' (2012), 'Carcass' (2013) and 'Nail' (2013)

Why he might be annoying:

    For 'Stitch,' he sewed his lips together to demonstrate his support for Pussy Riot.
    For 'Carcass,' he had himself wrapped naked in barbed wire.
    For 'Nail,' he stripped naked in front of Lenin's Mausoleum, then drove a large nail through his scrotum, affixing himself to the cobblestones of Red Square (November 10, 2013).

Why he might not be annoying:

    After 'Stitch,' he was taken by police for a psychiatric examination and was declared sane.
    A photo of him with his mouth sewn shut was chosen by Reuters as one of the best news photos of 2012.
    His acts are intended as protests against Russia descending into 'a police state' and Russian society's 'apathy, political indifference and fatalism.'
    What he does as a protest ain't much weirder than the stuff performance artists like Chris Burden and Marina Abramovic have done to themselves in the name of art.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 23 Votes: 60.87% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 68.42% Annoying