April 27, 2007

It's just a flesh wound.

Posted by apostropher

Kriston reviews a performance with no encores.

A dull Swiss army knife does not slice through penis foreskin like butter. That might have been the freakiest thing about last night’s art performance by Adrian Parsons—why, if you’ve chosen this path, would you not invest in the finest in self-mutilation technology? Why saw when you could slice? Maybe there’s no singling out any one freaky thing about “Shrapnel,” a performance in which Parsons removed his own foreskin and stuffed it into a glory hole in the wall at The Warehouse. The performance was staged for “Supple”, a group show of otherwise modest painting and sculpture. Hope you caught Parsons’s act of auto-circumcision last night, since he won’t be repeating it.

But it's a big and magical internet, so there's Youtube video of the performance at the link. No close-ups, so not as gruesome as you might imagine, but it's still a guy circumcising himself with a Swiss army knife so, you know, buyer beware.


Comments
1

Gee, I can't imagine what James Huckenpahler does. Should I ask?

Posted by: swampcracker at April 27, 2007 10:39 PM
2

I'm torn between not wanting to give all the guys out there a complex and wanting to comment on how super-skinny his member is. Hmmm....

Posted by: Becks at April 27, 2007 10:44 PM
3

Hmph. Lousy kids. In my day, all you had to do was lop off an ear to be a respected artist but nowadays you whippersnappers just won't leave anything to the imagination.

Posted by: V. van Gogh at April 28, 2007 01:05 AM
4

Why, dear god, why do I even read this damn blog?

Posted by: bitchphd at April 28, 2007 04:18 AM
5

That's not a very nice thing to say, B.

Posted by: apostropher at April 28, 2007 09:56 AM
6

Man, those Swiss army knives have a tool for everything.

Posted by: Gaijin Biker at April 28, 2007 12:14 PM
7

I guess the actor works for tips ... off.

Posted by: swampcracker at April 28, 2007 12:37 PM
8

1 stretch it out "b." you are cut right?

2 funny thing is the knife was really really sharp

3 no psych ward when i got to the hospital

4 "Someone took the glass out of his face. The man talked throughout, using an instrument he called a pickup to extract the small fragments of glass that were not deeply embedded. He said that most of the worst cases were in hospitals downtown or at the trauma center on a pier. He said that survivors were not appearing in the numbers expected. He was propelled by events and could not stop talking. Doctors and volunteers were standing idle, he said, because the people they were waiting for were mostly back there, in the ruins. He said he would use a clamp for the deeper fragments.

"Where there are suicide bombings. Maybe you don't want to hear this."

"I don't know."

"In those places where it happens, the survivors, the people nearby who are injured, sometimes, months later, they develop bumps, for lack of a better term, and it turns out this is caused by small fragments, tiny fragments of the suicide bomber's body. The bomber is blown to bits, literally bits and pieces, and fragments of flesh and bone come flying outward with such force and velocity that they get wedged, they get fixed in the body of anyone who's in striking range. Do you believe it? A student is sitting in a café. She survives the attack. Then, months later, they find these little, like, pellets of flesh, human flesh that got driven into her skin. They call this organic shrapnel."

He tweezered another splinter of glass out of Keith's face.
"This is something I don't think you have,""

-Don Delilio, Still Life

Posted by: adrian at April 28, 2007 11:02 PM
9

I am not a nice person.

Posted by: bitchphd at April 28, 2007 11:22 PM
10

I'm not clicking, no I'm not.

Posted by: Jackmormon at April 29, 2007 03:06 AM
11

Bush's abstinence czar resigned on 5:00 pm Friday for getting "massages" from an escort services. I wonder which muscles were massaged.

Posted by: John Johnson at April 29, 2007 10:40 AM
12

Is #8 posted by the performer in the linked video?

Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at April 29, 2007 06:30 PM
13

Nah, apo is just kind of a magnet for schizophrenia. (I don't actually know the answer to your question but my statement is true.)

Posted by: Robust McManlyPants at April 30, 2007 12:14 PM
14

Also, I have not clicked and will not click the link. I'm doing a pretty good job of sticking to my guns on the whole "lesson learned" thing.

Posted by: Robust McManlyPants at April 30, 2007 12:14 PM
15

People, you can click the link for the review and just not hit 'Play' on the embedded YouTube video. Though honestly, because it's shot from something of a distance, the video isn't really that bad.

And yes, I do believe that comment was left by the artist.

Posted by: apostropher at April 30, 2007 12:25 PM
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